US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 15 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,086, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yasufumi Hirakawa (Tokyo) and Natsuki Yui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to acquire image data of a predetermined space captured by a camera, set a mask region in the space, identify a person image being an image of a person included in the image data, estimate a body of the pers...