ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,403, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory storage medium for determining an object based on collated keypoints and threshold value" was invented by Yu Nabeto (Tokyo), Soma Shiraishi (Tokyo), Takami Sato (Tokyo) and Katsumi Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an object region detection unit (11) that detects, from an image, an object region being a region including an object; a reliability computation unit (12) that computes, for each product, reliability in which each of the pro...