US Patent Issued to NEC on July 8 for "Video processing device, video processing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,356, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video processing device, video processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Soma Shiraishi (Tokyo), Katsumi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Yu Nabeto (Tokyo) and Haruna Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The video processing device includes a video acquisition means, a person identification means, an importance calculation means, and an importance integration means. The video acquisition means acquires a material video. The person identification means identifies a person from the material video. The importance calculation means calculates an importance of the material...