US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 3 for "Information provision system, method for providing passenger vehicle information, and recorded program medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,053, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information provision system, method for providing passenger vehicle information, and recorded program medium" was invented by Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo), Tetsuro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information provision system connected to a fixed point camera installed in an area to be serviced includes: using an image captured by the fixed-point camera(s), and identifying passenger vehicles passing on a road, distinguishing whether the passenger vehicle is empty or not using the image captu...