US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 28 for "Customer analysis apparatus, customer analysis method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,313, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Customer analysis apparatus, customer analysis method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Makiko Akiguchi (Tokyo), Azusa Furukawa (Tokyo), Kei Shibuya (Tokyo), Kan Arai (Tokyo), Hiroshi Hashimoto (Tokyo) and Ken Hanazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customer analysis apparatus (10) includes an image acquisition unit (110) and an image processing unit (120). The image acquisition unit (110) acquires a first image generated by a first image capture unit (22) and a second image generated by a second image capture unit (24). The image processing unit (...