ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,676, issued on March 25, was assigned to SWALLOW INCUBATE Co. LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan) and PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image processing method, image processing device, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Toshikazu Ohno (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes: acquiring image data; detecting a face region including at least a part of a face of a person from the image data; setting a first region used for detection of an eye of the person in the face region having been detected; setting a second region estimated to include a pupil or an iris by nar...