US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 27 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,174, issued on May 27, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and program" was invented by Ayana Tsuji (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Ohta (Kyoto, Japan), Tsuyoshi Kobayashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Toshifumi Kishida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an image obtainer that obtains captured images captured with a camera in a time series, an accumulator that accumulates movement information about a moving object in the captured images in the time series, a calculator that calculates movement information about the moving object based on the capt...