US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,880, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Ryo Kawai (Tokyo) and Jianquan Liu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a call determination unit that determines whether a user who has visited an ATM is talking on a phone based on a captured image of a target area based on the ATM, an operation control unit that switches an operation mode of the ATM from a first operation mode to a second operation mode in which informatio...