US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 9 for "Image selection apparatus, image selection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,889, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image selection apparatus, image selection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo), Yadong Pan (Tokyo), Ryo Kawai (Tokyo), Jianquan Liu (Tokyo) and Shoji Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query acquisition unit (610) acquires a query video. A query frame selection unit (620) selects a plurality of query frames from among a plurality of first frame images included in the query video. A video selection unit (630) selects a video by using the plurality of query frames. At this time, the video selection unit (6...