ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,925, issued on May 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Soma Shiraishi (Tokyo), Katsumi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Takami Sato (Tokyo) and Yu Nabeto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a plurality of images, captured by a plurality of cameras, of a product held by a customer with a hand; a detection unit (12) that detects an object from each of the plurality of images; a positional information generation unit (13) that generates positional i...