US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 23 for "Image recognition apparatus, image recognition method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,791, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image recognition apparatus, image recognition method, and recording medium" was invented by Shigeaki Namiki (Tokyo), Shoji Yachida (Tokyo) and Takashi Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image recognition apparatus includes an image selection unit and a recognition unit. The image selection unit selects a feature image representing a feature portion of an object from among captured images of a time series in which the object is photographed. For example, the feature image corresponds to an image showing an abnormal portion. The recognition unit performs a re...