ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,332, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Motion visualization system and the motion visualization method" was invented by Takeshi Tanaka (Tokyo), Daisuke Fukui (Tokyo), Hiromitsu Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Takashi Toyomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion visualization system 1 includes a skeleton recognition program 2 obtaining joint coordinates of a target person, a pitch extraction program 6 extracting a walk cycle of the target person based on the joint coordinates, and a storage unit 106 storing a skeleton normalization program 3 transforming coordinates of the joint coordinates in a refe...