ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,499, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Analysis apparatus, analysis system, analysis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" was invented by Shin Norieda (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Tanaka (Tokyo), Shogo Akasaki (Tokyo), Haruki Yokota (Tokyo) and Masami Sakaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis apparatus acquires individual emotion data for each participant generated on the basis of face image data of the participants in an online meeting during the meeting. The analysis apparatus generates, for each participant, analysis data indicating a degree of emotion in the online meet...