US Patent Issued to NEC on May 20 for "Object recognition device, object recognition method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,707, issued on May 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition device, object recognition method, and recording medium" was invented by Tetsuo Inoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an object recognition device, an estimation means estimates a possession of the person based on a pose of a person in an image. An object detection means detects an object from surroundings of the person in the image. A weighting means sets weights with respect to an estimation result of the possession and a detection result of the object based on the image. A combination unit combines the estimation result of the possession and ...