US Patent Issued to NEC on June 17 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,936, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Kazufumi Kojima (Tokyo), Masahiro Tani (Tokyo) and Keisuke Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce a decrease in search accuracy in a technique for comparing feature values acquired by collecting a local feature value by patch unit, the present invention provides an image processing apparatus 10 including: an image processing unit 11 that detects an object region occupied by an object in an image; a patch size decision unit 12 that decides a patch size, based...