US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 23 for "Monitoring device, monitoring system, monitoring method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,031, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring device, monitoring system, monitoring method, and computer program" was invented by Kenzo Yamamoto (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a monitoring device that monitors another person's peeping into a document to be read, a medium on which drawing output is performed, or content displayed by an image processing apparatus, and the monitoring device includes a first hardware processor that: acquires person information indicating a person present within a predetermined range from the image processing apparatus; performs dete...