ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,514, issued on June 10, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, and image processing method" was invented by Takashi Miyata (Tokyo), Taiki Yamada (Tokyo) and Tomoaki Hagihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes: a captured image acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of captured images photographed with a photographic device; a music playback information acquisition unit for acquiring music playback information that is information about music being played during photographing of the captured images; and a captured image selection unit for highlight scene, for s...