ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,406, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Rotation state estimation device, method and program" was invented by Dan Mikami (Tokyo), Mariko Isogawa (Tokyo), Kosuke Takahashi (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Kusachi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique that enables, even if a video image corresponding to one period is not obtained, estimating a rotational state of an object is provided. The rotational state estimation device includes: an object image generation unit 1 that generates object images, each of the object images being an image of an object, from an input video image; and a rotat...