US Patent Issued to NEC on March 17 for "Image selection apparatus, image selection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,674, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image selection apparatus, image selection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo), Yadong Pan (Tokyo), Ryo Kawai (Tokyo), Jianquan Liu (Tokyo) and Shoji Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search information acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of search pose information generated for each of a plurality of target images and indicate a pose of a person included in the target image. An exclusion information acquisition unit acquires exclusion pose information indicating a pose of a person included...