US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 6 for "Image matching apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,406, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image matching apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Royston Rodrigues (Tokyo) and Masahiro Tani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image matching apparatus (2000) acquires a ground-view image (20), an aerial-view image (30), a ground depth image (40), and an aerial depth image (50). The ground depth image (40) indicates distance from a ground camera to each location captured in the ground-view image (20). The aerial depth image (50) indicates distance from a center location captured in the aerial-view image to ea...