ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,407, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system, imaging system, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yuka Ogino (Tokyo) and Takahiro Toizumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes a detection unit, an identification unit, and a feature extraction unit. The detection unit detects, from a first image in which a target person is captured, a candidate region being an image region estimated to represent an eye of the target person, based on a first evaluation value. The identification unit identifies, from the detected ca...