ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,899, issued on July 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo) and Tingting Dong (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce a load on a computer required for processing of searching for a desired person from among a plurality of images, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus 10 including: an acquisition unit 11 that acquires a query indicating a person attribute; and a search unit 12 that refers to a reference image database in which a plurality of reference images are grouped by p...