US Patent Issued to TOTO on July 29 for "Excrement judgement system, excrement judgement method, and excrement judgement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,446, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Kitakyushu, Japan).

"Excrement judgement system, excrement judgement method, and excrement judgement device" was invented by Katsunori Ishii (Fukuoka, Japan) and Mayu Okubo (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excrement judgement system according to the embodiment including: an acquisition unit that acquires image information on an image in which excrement excreted in a defecation action per time is captured; a determination unit that determines properties of a plurality of stools included in the image information and stool amounts corresponding to the properties of the ...