ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,968, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus, and processing method" was invented by Jun Uchimura (Tokyo), Yuji Tahara (Tokyo), Rina Tomita (Tokyo) and Yasuyo Kazo (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 a video generated by a surveillance camera, a generation unit (12) that generates a plurality of surveillance target video contents, based on the video, a condition setting unit (13) that sets a surveillant condition required of a surveillant who confirms the surveillance target video content, ...