US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 5 for "Information processing apparatus, control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,402, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method, and program" was invented by Yoshihiro Itou (Tokyo), Kanako Taga (Tokyo) and Takenobu Kitahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a product recognition unit (2020), a shelf label recognition unit (2040), and a determination unit (2060). The product recognition unit (2020) recognizes the number of types of products or positions of each type of products from a target image. The shelf label recognition unit (2040) recognizes the number or positions of shelf labels indicating i...