US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Nov. 25 for "Recommendation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,359, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Recommendation device" was invented by Kunihiro Aiba (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Sohei Ono (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Wataru Akashi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Sho Maeoki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommendation device includes an acquisition unit acquiring a visual line image obtained by imaging the trajectory of the visual line of a user browsing a content displayed on a user terminal, an extraction unit extracting a feature vector indicating a feature amount of the visual line image, a generation unit generating a correspondence relationship between the con...