US Patent Issued to NEC on July 15 for "Notification control apparatus, control method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,530, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Notification control apparatus, control method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Junichi Funada (Tokyo) and Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification control apparatus (2000) acquires video data or audio data for a plurality of persons (10) (a human group (40)) who have a conversation within a predetermined distance with each other in a surveillance area. The notification control apparatus (2000) determines whether or not the human group (40) is in a state suitable for receiving a notification using the acquired data. When the human g...