US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 18 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,005, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium" was invented by Takahiro Toizumi (Tokyo) and Koichi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (2) includes: a reducing unit (211) that generates a second image (IMG2) by reducing a first image (MG1) in which a target object is included; a first extracting unit (212) that extracts, as a first key point, a key point (KP) of the target object from the second image; a setting unit (213) that sets a target area (TA) that designates a part of the first im...