ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,814, issued on May 6, was assigned to MAXELL Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Watching monitoring device and watching monitoring method" was invented by Koji Kaniwa (Kyoto, Japan) and Masuo Oku (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watching monitoring apparatus includes a monitoring camera and a home server, and monitors a watching space in which a watched person exists. The monitoring camera images the watching space. The home server includes a person detector that detects a person from a captured image, and classifies the detected person into a face part and a body part, a processing-drawing part that performs a processing-drawing pr...