US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,015, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Kazuo Sugimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image captured such that a light emitting area in which light is emitted in a dark place is included in an angle of view; a determination unit that determines whether or not to switch a mode of power consumption in accordance with a light emitting state of the light emitting area included in the image; and a switching unit that switches the mode of power consumpt...