ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,591, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for social distancing display" was invented by Gaku Nakano (Tokyo), Shoji Nishimura (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Higeta (Tokyo), Youtarou Noda (Tokyo), Shigeki Shinoda (Tokyo), Yuzo Senda (Tokyo), Shin Tominaga (Tokyo), Masumi Ishikawa (Tokyo), Daisuke Ikefuji (Tokyo), Kana Takizawa (Tokyo), Kenichi Ishii (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Satou (Tokyo), Eishi Arita (Tokyo), Shota Yamamoto (Tokyo), Shinya Yamasaki (Tokyo), Narumitsu Notomi (Tokyo) and Aki Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...