US Patent Issued to NEC on April 1 for "Data collection apparatus, onboard apparatus, data collection method, data transmission method, and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,193, issued on April 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data collection apparatus, onboard apparatus, data collection method, data transmission method, and program recording medium" was invented by Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo), Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo), Shintaro Chiku (Tokyo), Yoko Tanaka (Tokyo), Yuki Tsuji (Tokyo) and Natsumi Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates ...