ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,145, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Koichi Nihei (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Onishi (Tokyo) and Takanori Iwai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system (1) includes: acquisition means (11) for acquiring, regarding a frame of a video image distributed via a network, information indicating vectors of movements regarding respective subareas obtained by dividing the frame of the video image into a plurality of areas; estimation means (12) for estimating a position of an area of a sp...