ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,070, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Jun Piao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registered object image storage unit stores at least one image of an object as a registered object image in association with an object identification number that uniquely identifies the object. The unknown object image acquisition unit acquires an unknown object image that is an image of an unknown object. An object re-identification unit re-identifies the acquired unknown object image by using the registered object image stored in the registered object image storage unit. When a c...