US Patent Issued to OMRON on July 29 for "Accessibility determination device, accessibility determination method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,156, issued on July 29, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Accessibility determination device, accessibility determination method, and program" was invented by Tomohiro Yabuuchi (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuo Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Naoto Iwamoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Endri Rama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessibility determination device may include an imaging device that captures images of a surrounding environment of a user at time intervals to acquire a plurality of captured images; a facial organ detector that analyzes the captured images to detect a facial organ of a person that makes a notification to the ...