ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,577, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Prediction method" was invented by Shigeki Shinoda (Tokyo), Daisuke Ikefuji (Tokyo), Shin Tominaga (Tokyo), Yuzo Senda (Tokyo) and Hirofumi Inoue (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction device 100 of the present invention includes a detection means 121 for, on the basis of a river image that is an image obtained by capturing a river and associated with capturing position information representing a position where the river is captured, detecting river condition information representing a condition of the river at the position where the river image is captured; and ...