US Patent Issued to NEC on June 17 for "Operation control apparatus, operation control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,620, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Operation control apparatus, operation control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Shigeru Sekine (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation control apparatus (10) includes a data acquisition unit (110) and an apparatus control unit (120). The data acquisition unit (110) acquires first congestion data. In a present example, the data acquisition unit (110) generates the first congestion data by processing an image generated by an image capture unit. The image processing performed herein includes, for exampl...