US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS on May 6 for "Output device, method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,550, issued on May 6, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Output device, method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Hirofumi Kanai (Osaka, Japan), Toshihide Mori (Osaka, Japan), Yuka Yamada (Nara, Japan) and Hideyuki Maehara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output device performs: acquiring a plurality of images chronologically captured by a camera located to photograph an inside of a bowl of a toilet; extracting, from the acquired images, an excrement image showing excrement; extracting, from the acquired images, a blood image showing a blood spot; determining,...