US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 18 for "Signal control system, signal control method, and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,783, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal control system, signal control method, and program recording medium" was invented by Nobuyuki Tozawa (Tokyo), Atsushi Matsuda (Tokyo), Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Shouji Haruyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal control system is capable of acquiring an image of a road from a camera disposed around a road in a control target area and includes a passability determination part for determining passability of a road section starting from an intersection on a basis of an abnormality in an image photographed by the camera and a signal c...