US Patent Issued to NEC on March 11 for "Image providing apparatus, image providing system, image providing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,182, issued on March 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image providing apparatus, image providing system, image providing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Risa Tagawa (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Hiramoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image providing apparatus (10) includes a registration unit (12) for registering a plurality of captured images of a predetermined user taken at a plurality of locations, respectively, in a storage unit (11), an acquisition unit (13) for acquiring a first image of the user captured at a specific location, a specification unit (14) for specifying one or more ...