US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 14 for "Interest degree measurement system and simulation system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,682, issued on July 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Interest degree measurement system and simulation system" was invented by Ryu Makabe (Tokyo), Masami Aikawa (Tokyo), Kei Gomita (Tokyo) and Atsushi Hori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an interest degree measurement system included in a simulation system, a behavior information acquisition unit acquires behavior information on an arrival floor of a user on the basis of an image or images captured by a camera. An interest information acquisition unit acquires interest information representing degrees of interest of users for each attribute on a basis ...