US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Oct. 14 for "Crime prevention system and crime prevention method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,282, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Crime prevention system and crime prevention method" was invented by Satoshi Okuda (Tokyo), Masaharu Hattori (Tokyo), Yasuki Aihara (Tokyo) and Takashi Takenaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal image acquisition device (2) acquires a thermal image of a balcony (1). Setting circuitry (11) sets an outside area (15) corresponding to an outside of the balcony (1) and a balcony inside area (16) corresponding to inside of the balcony (1) in the thermal image. Heat source detection circuitry (9) detects a heat source (14) in the thermal image. Intrusi...