US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,362, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and program" was invented by Yoshihiro Mishima (Tokyo), Naoko Asano (Tokyo) and Erina Kitahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among multiple different area classes designated regarding objects appearing in a captured image that has been acquired, to which area class each pixel in the captured image belongs is recognized. An unrecognized-class area not belonging to any of the multiple area classes in an area in the captured image representing a prescribed area class among the multiple different area classes is identifie...