US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 23 for "Human skeleton image apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,017, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Human skeleton image apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" 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 a two-dimensional skeleton structure of a person based on an acquired two-dimensional image; an estimation unit (12) configured to estimate the height of the person when the person stands upright in a two-dimensional image space based on the two-dimensional skelet...