US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 29 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,338, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and program" was invented by Yuta Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captured image showing face images of a plurality of persons is identified. Each face image of the plurality of persons shown in the captured image are compared with registered face images, and a registered image including a face most similar to a face of the person shown in the captured image is identified, as a matching target to be matched against the face image of the person shown in the captured image."

The patent was filed on March 12, ...