US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on April 22 for "Preprocessing device, determination system, preprocessing method, and preprocessing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,901, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Preprocessing device, determination system, preprocessing method, and preprocessing program" was invented by Kazuhiro Miyahara (Musashino, Japan), Tatsuro Kimura (Musashino, Japan), Ichibe Naito (Musashino, Japan), Atsushi Isomura (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoya Ikeda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preprocessing device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire coordinate information of respective vertexes of a polygon for inside/outside determination and divide the polygon for inside/outside determination into a pluralit...