US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 16 for "Surveillance system, surveillance apparatus, surveillance method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,640, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surveillance system, surveillance apparatus, surveillance method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Daiki Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Ryuji Wakakusa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveillance apparatus (100) includes a detection unit (102) processing an image in which an area around a road is captured and detecting that the relative distance between a person and a vehicle included in the image is in a state of being equal to or less than a reference value, and an output unit (104) selecting a type of information to be output, by using ...