US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 28 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,247, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program" was invented by Yaeko Yonezawa (Tokyo), Kaito Horita (Tokyo), Takaaki Iwabuchi (Tokyo) and Akiko Kubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By processing an image in which a plurality of articles (such as products) placed on a shelf are captured, an image processing unit (120) determines the article name (such as the product name) of each of the plurality of articles captured in the image. Determining an article name also includes determining identification information tied to the article name. When a specific...