US Patent Issued to NEC on April 29 for "Selecting image to display based on facial distance between target person and another person" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,415, issued on April 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Selecting image to display based on facial distance between target person and another person" was invented by Daiki Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring an image including a face image of a person; and a selection unit for selecting the image in which the part other than the face of a target person is captured among the plurality of images by using the position of the face image of a person other than the target person in the acquired image."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2023, un...