US Patent Issued to RICOH on Jan. 27 for "Image processing method, recording medium, image processing apparatus, and image-capturing apparatus which first detects a region of a person and then detects a state of the person" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,009, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, recording medium, image processing apparatus, and image-capturing apparatus which first detects a region of a person and then detects a state of the person" was invented by Kenichiroh Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes acquiring an image; identifying a position of a region of a person in the acquired image; setting an object detection range based on the identified position of the region of the person; and detecting a state of the person based on the set object detection range."

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