US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Determination device, identification method and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,008, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determination device, identification method and recording medium" was invented by Takahiro Owada (Tokyo) and Mineto Satoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The determination device is provided with an identification unit and a determination unit. The identification unit identifies a direction extending from inside to outside of an object in image data or position data. The determination unit then determines whether the identified direction satisfies criteria that indicate that information relating to the object is missing."

The patent was filed on Aug. 30, 2021, under A...