US Patent Issued to NEC on March 4 for "Road deterioration diagnosing device, road deterioration diagnosing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,465, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Road deterioration diagnosing device, road deterioration diagnosing method, and recording medium" was invented by Chisato Sugawara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road deterioration diagnosing device acquires an image capturing a road and a date and a time when the image was captured as well as a location and a direction in which the image was captured, detects deterioration of the road surface shown in the acquired image, calculates a direction in which a shadow of a building may be formed over the road surface shown in the image using the date, the time, the locati...