US Patent Issued to NEC on July 14 for "Image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,599, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method" was invented by Azusa Sawada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device 100 of the present invention includes a region extraction unit 121 that extracts, from a captured image, a mobile body region that is a region having a possibility that a mobile body exists, a matching unit 122 that performs template matching on the mobile body region by using a template corresponding to a mobile body that is a detection object, and a detection unit 123 that detects each mobile body from the mobile body region separately, on the basis of the...