ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,988, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Traffic amount estimation system" was invented by Takuya Doumen (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Tomohiro Nakagawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Kazuya Sasaki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic amount estimation system is a traffic amount estimation system that estimates a traffic amount of people in a predetermined time frame in an area that is an estimation target set in advance, the traffic amount estimation system including: a population information acquiring unit configured to acquire population information representing a population at a predete...