ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,904, issued on May 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for image retrieval based on pose information" was invented by Ryo Kawai (Tokyo), Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo), Jianquan Liu (Tokyo), Satoshi Yamazaki (Tokyo), Tingting Dong (Tokyo), Karen Stephen (Tokyo), Youhei Sasaki (Tokyo), Naoki Shindou (Tokyo) and Yuta Namiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a pose acquisition unit, a retrieval unit, and a display control unit. The pose acquisition unit acquires first pose information i...