ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,945, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Monitoring device, monitoring system, and monitoring method" was invented by Soichi Hagiwara (Yokohama, Japan) and Tatsuro Osada (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute a process including acquiring image data indicating a change in intensity of incident light from a sensor array, determining a first region to be monitored and a second region not to be monitored in a field of view of the sensor array, and outputting a monitoring result of a moving object based on the image data ...