US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on Jan. 13 for "Gas detection device, gas detection method, and gas detection program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,601, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Gas detection device, gas detection method, and gas detection program" was invented by Motohiro Asano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas detection device that gives a notification of a detected gas on the basis of a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a monitoring target, the gas detection device including: a gas detection unit that detects gas on the basis of the captured image and gives a notification of the detected gas; an input unit that receives input information from a user; a mask candidate region extraction unit that extracts a...