ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,583, issued on July 15, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Image analysis apparatus and monitoring system" was invented by Yoshiaki Tomatsu (Kariya, Japan) and Takayuki Nakagome (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image analysis apparatus includes a person information acquisition unit configured to analyze a captured image of a monitored space imaged by a camera so as to acquire information of a person imaged in the captured image, and a hidden state detection unit configured to detect occurrence of a hidden state in which a plurality of the persons are imaged to overlap in the captured image."
The patent was ...