US Patent Issued to NEC on May 13 for "Action detection system, action detection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,077, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Action detection system, action detection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Ryo Kawai (Tokyo), Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo), Jianquan Liu (Tokyo), Shunsuke Tsuda (Tokyo) and Yuki Tsuruoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An action detection system (10) includes an action specification unit (18) configured to start specification of at least one action ID based on at least part of skeleton information extracted from video data that is a captured video of a user in response to detection of the user visiting checkout machine determined in advance...