ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,714, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Kris Ranganath (Sacramento, Calif.), Rody Bagtes (Sacramento, Calif.), Kannan Veeranan Gandhi (Sacramento, Calif.) and Arun Chandrasekaran (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus obtains a first image including a plurality of body regions captured at a first time by one or more cameras, each of the plurality of body regions corresponding to a person, among a plurality of persons; detects a first person, among the plurality of persons, by performing fac...