US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 28 for "Visual object tracking method, visual object tracking system, machine learning method, and learning system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,218, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Visual object tracking method, visual object tracking system, machine learning method, and learning system" was invented by Florian Beye (Tokyo), Takanori Iwai (Tokyo), Yusuke Shinohara (Tokyo) and Hayato Itsumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation unit of a visual object tracking apparatus estimates a plurality of estimated bounding boxes and estimated object IDs respectively corresponding to the estimated bounding boxes based on a plurality of predicted bounding boxes and a plurality of detected bounding boxes. For example, the "detected bounding boxes" are ...