ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,817, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Jun Kasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Shikoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Takehito Teraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Fangge Chen (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device is disclosed that includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image captured by an imaging device fixed to a moving object; a behavior data acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior data indicating behavio...