ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,299, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object tracking apparatus, object tracking method and recording medium" was invented by Hiroshi Fukui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object tracking apparatus (1) includes: a first generation unit (221-224) for generating, based on a first position information (PIt-Tau) related to a position of an object (Ot-Tau) in a first image (IMt-Tau) captured at a first time (t-Tau) and a second position information (PIt) related to a position of an object (Ot) in a second image (IMt) captured at a second time (t), first and second feature vectors (CVt-Tau, CVt); and a second...