ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,348, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Classification apparatus, classification method and computer readable medium" was invented by Asako Fujii (Tokyo), Iain Melvin (Princeton, N.J.), Yuki Chiba (Tokyo), Masayuki Sakata (Tokyo), Erik Kruus (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Chris White (Branchburg, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A classification apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an input unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user, an extraction unit configured to extract moving image data by using a predetermined rule, a display control unit configured to display an icon corres...