ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,290, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for estimating a body part position of a person" was invented by Ni Ni Soe (Singapore) and Charles Chi Hin Choy (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for estimating a body part position of a person, the method comprising: detecting, by a processor, a plurality of body part positions of the person from an image in which the person is detected, wherein each of the plurality of body part positions corresponds to a body part of the person; and estimating, by the processor, a body part position of ...