ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,991, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Placement method" was invented by Kazuma Minoura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A placement apparatus according to the present invention includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a proportion of an existing person for each of division regions obtained by dividing a target region into a plurality of regions; a transforming unit configured to transform information representing the proportion of the person of each of the division regions into an array; and a determining unit configured to determine placement of the individual person in the division region based on ...