ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,650, issued on July 22, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Katsuyuki Okonogi (Yokohama, Japan) and Takayuki Kato (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus according to one aspect includes a hardware processor connected to a memory. The hardware processor performs a process including: acquiring a plurality of captured images whose capturing areas overlap with one another; determining whether an object is included in an overlap portion of adjacent ones of the plurality of captured images in a pr...