US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 16 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,642, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Kenta Ishihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a visual recognition easiness level calculation unit and a visual feature adding unit. The visual recognition easiness level calculation unit calculates a visual recognition easiness level, the visual recognition easiness level indicating the ease of recognition of a skeleton model of a person that is built in a virtual space using three-dimensional skeleton information specify...