ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,904, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS (Tokyo).

"Biological detection system, biological detection method, and program" was invented by Miku Shimizu (Tokyo), Tota Mizuno (Tokyo) and Naoaki Itakura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included are: an averaging processing unit configured to acquire video data of a facial image captured of a face of a target person and average all pixels in a specific region of the acquired video data, at regular time intervals, in terms of a difference component between color components of primary colors in the specific region; a fluctuation acquisition unit ...