ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,970, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Jianquan Liu (Tokyo) and Junnan Li (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (10) including a detection unit (12) that detects a plurality of predetermined points of a body of each of a plurality of persons from an image in an image circle of a fisheye image, a gravity direction determination unit (13) that determines a gravity direction in a position of each of the plurality of persons from the plurality of predetermin...