US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Oct. 28 for "People flow prediction method and people flow prediction system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,439, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"People flow prediction method and people flow prediction system" was invented by Yu Kitano (Tokyo), Akinori Asahara (Tokyo), Naoki Shimode (Tokyo) and Nobuo Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A people flow prediction system and method are provided, in which a first conversion model for converting virtual getting in and out data before a certain time point into a number of people who appear after the certain time point and a second conversion model for converting the virtual getting in and out data after a certain time point into the number of people who appear bef...