US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Oct. 7 for "Method for counting passengers of a public transportation system, control apparatus and computer program product" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,550, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for counting passengers of a public transportation system, control apparatus and computer program product" was invented by Trung Hoang (London), Donato Di Paola (London) and Anthony Ohazulike (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for counting the number of persons being at a predefined location before entering a transportation vehicle 1, wherein the method includes the steps of receiving images taken by one or more cameras 2a, 2b mounted at the transportation vehicle 1 and performing for each image processing steps of, wherein the method further comprises tra...