US Patent Issued to NEC on May 13 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing image processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,015, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing image processing program" was invented by Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo) and Shoji Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a skeleton detection unit (11) configured to detect two-dimensional skeleton structures of a plurality of persons based on an acquired two-dimensional image; a feature calculation unit (12) configured to calculate features of the plurality of two-dimensional skeleton struc...