US Patent Issued to NEC on July 22 for "Information provision apparatus, system, method and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,762, issued on July 22, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information provision apparatus, system, method and computer readable medium" was invented by Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo), Tetsuro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo) and Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signal information acquisition means acquires signal information about a traffic light installed on a road. Video acquisition means acquires a video photographed near a first parking lot entrance facing the road. Prediction means predicts whether or not a queue of waiting vehicles will be formed near the first parking lot entrance ...