ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,165, issued on April 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo) and Jianquan Liu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query acquisition unit (109) acquires a first query moving image having a plurality of time-series first frame images and at least one second query moving image having a plurality of time-series second frame images. A feature value computing unit (103) computes a feature value of a keypoint detected from an object being included in each of the first frame images and the second frame images. A correspondence relationship dete...