ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,807, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video transmission apparatus, video transmission method, and program" was invented by Mika Saito (Tokyo), Kenichiro Ida (Tokyo), Ryoma Oami (Tokyo), Junko Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video transmission apparatus (10) includes: a specified-position information acquisition unit (110) that acquires specified-position information indicating a specified position in an area to be surveilled including each imaging region corresponding to each of a plurality of imaging apparatuses; and a video transmission control unit (120) that selec...