ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,996, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method, and program" was invented by Takuya Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus of the present invention detects a queue (20) of objects from video data (12). Further, the information processing apparatus of the present invention generates element information using a video frame (14) in which the queue (20) of objects is detected. The element information is information in which an object area (24) in the video frame (14) occupied by the object (22) included in the queue (20) of objects is as...