US Patent Issued to NEC on March 4 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, learning apparatus, learning method and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,244, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, learning apparatus, learning method and recording medium" was invented by Hideaki Sato (Tokyo) and Kyota Higa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image processing apparatus, a foreground extraction unit extracts each foreground from input images, and generates a foreground extraction result. A movement trajectory feature extraction unit tracks each foreground based on the foreground extraction result, and extracts a movement trajectory feature of the foreground. The area variation feature extraction unit extracts a...