US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 14 for "Pulse wave estimating device and pulse wave estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,063, issued on July 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pulse wave estimating device and pulse wave estimation method" was invented by Takafumi Marutani (Tokyo), Ryohei Murachi (Tokyo) and Yudai Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse wave estimating device includes processing circuitry configured to; acquire a captured image of a human; detect a skin region of the human on the captured image; set, as a plurality of measurement regions for extracting luminance signals representing luminance changes, regions formed by dividing the skin region on the captured image in a predetermined manner; extract t...