US Patent Issued to Hitachi on July 22 for "Number-of-people information acquisition system, number-of-people information acquisition method, and elevator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,564, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Number-of-people information acquisition system, number-of-people information acquisition method, and elevator" was invented by Yuta Sukegawa (Tokyo), Takahiro Hatori (Tokyo), Tomoaki Maehara (Tokyo) and Takahiro Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, a process of receiving an image obtained by capturing a measurement target place with a camera, calculating a number of people in the measurement target place based on the image received, and allocating a car according to the calculated number of people is performed. Here, when an abnormality t...