ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,867, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Action recognition system" was invented by Munetoshi Unuma (Tokyo), Lu Han (Tokyo), Hiroshi Tsukui (Tsuchiura, Japan), Kouji Fujita (Tsuchiura, Japan), Kenichi Ajima (Tsuchiura, Japan), Masutaka Kumasaka (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Kouichirou Ejiri (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An action recognition system includes a controller that computes, in a time division manner, a plurality of feature vectors using as feature quantities information of a machine with respect to running that varies in a time sequence, generates a classificatio...