ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,176, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system, image processing method, and program" was invented by Yusuke Takahashi (Tokyo) and Hiroo Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of implementing an association of a person appearing in a video image through a simple operation are provided. The image processing system includes an input device which accepts input of video images captured by a plurality of video cameras, a display screen generating unit which causes a display device to display at least one video image am...