US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 16 for "Estimation device, estimation system, estimation method, and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,990, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimation device, estimation system, estimation method, and program recording medium" was invented by Chenhui Huang (Tokyo) and Kenichiro Fukushi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to estimate the type of footwear worn by a pedestrian, an estimation device and the like according to the present invention are provided with: an extraction unit which acquires sensor data from a sensor installed on the footwear, and uses the sensor data to extract a walking feature quantity characteristic of walking in footwear; and an estimation unit which estimates the type of foot...