ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,934, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Training data generating device, method, and program, and crowd state recognition device, method, and program" was invented by Hiroo Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one processor generates a crowd state image as an image in which a person image corresponding to a person state is synthesized with previously-prepared image at a predetermined size. The at least one processor specifies a training label for the crowd state image. The at least one processor outputs a pair of crowd state image and training label."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2023, under Ap...