US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 28 for "Activity support apparatus, activity support method, and computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,361, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Activity support apparatus, activity support method, and computer readable recording medium" was invented by Shigeki Shinoda (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Sato (Tokyo), Shin Tominaga (Tokyo) and Daisuke Ikefuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activity support apparatus supports an activity of a worker at a disaster site. The activity support apparatus comprises a vibration data acquisition unit that acquires vibration data of vibrations generated by the worker, an activity level estimation unit that estimates an activity level of the worker based on the vibration data acquired...