ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,847, issued on May 26, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo) and Tingting Dong (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve accuracy of processing of searching for an image including a desired person from a plurality of images, the present invention provides an image processing apparatus 10 including: an acquisition unit 11 that acquires a search query including pose information indicating a pose of a body of a person and appearance information indicating an appearance of a person; and a search unit 12 that ...