ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,785, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"State monitoring method and state monitoring system" was invented by Yasutaka Serizawa (Tokyo), Hisanori Matsumoto (Tokyo) and Goichi Ono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The state monitoring system includes: a 3D camera configured to acquire an image in a work area; and information processing apparatus connected to the 3D camera and including a processing unit and a storage unit. The processing unit calculates a camera setting parameter that determines an imaging condition of the 3D camera with respect to a monitoring target as a target to be monitored in the work a...