ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,660, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video analysis apparatus, video analysis system, and video analysis method" was invented by Hayato Itsumi (Tokyo), Takanori Iwai (Tokyo), Yusuke Shinohara (Tokyo) and Florian Beye (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video analysis apparatus and the like with improved video analysis accuracy are provided.The video analysis apparatus includes a first video analysis unit and a second video analysis unit. The first video analysis unit is configured to distribute frames to the first video analysis unit or the second video analysis unit, detect a target object in frames whic...