US Patent Issued to NEC on July 15 for "Outputting notification information when having decided that independently acting person belongs to group" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,757, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Outputting notification information when having decided that independently acting person belongs to group" was invented by Daiki Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Ryuji Wakakusa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image generated by a camera; an extraction unit (12) that extracts, from the image, an independently acting person being a person taking independent action; a decision unit (13) that decides whether the independently acting person belongs to any of groups, based on ...