ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,203, issued on July 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tracking support apparatus, terminal, tracking support system, tracking support method and program" was invented by Taichi Ohtsuji (Tokyo), Kazushi Muraoka (Tokyo), Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo), Dai Kanetomo (Tokyo), Norio Yamagaki (Tokyo) and Takashi Yoshinaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking support system includes a position calculating section connected with a plurality of cameras arranged in a predetermined monitoring area to transmit video images imaged by the plurality of cameras and configured to calculate a position of the tracking target based on the vid...