US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 16 for "Object tracking device, object tracking method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,561, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object tracking device, object tracking method, and recording medium" was invented by Takuya Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an object tracking device, an extraction means extracts target candidates from time series images. A search range update means updates a search range based on frame information of a target in a previous image in a time series and movement information of the target. A tracking means searches for and tracks the target using a confidence level indicating similarity with a target model, from among the target candidates extracted in the searc...