US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 1 for "Image matching apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,398, issued on Sept. 1, 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: "The image matching apparatus (2000) acquires a ground-view image (20) and an aerial-view image (30). The image matching apparatus (2000) extracts features from the ground-view image (20). The image matching apparatus (2000) extracts features from the aerial-view image (30). The image matching apparatus (2000) extracts a plurality of partial aerial regions (32) from the aerial-view imag...