US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Oct. 27 for "Monitoring system and monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,923, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring system and monitoring method" was invented by Satoshi Okuda (Tokyo), Masaharu Hattori (Tokyo), Yasuki Aihara (Tokyo), Takashi Takenaga (Tokyo), Kazuya Sato (Tokyo), Yasuaki Susumu (Tokyo) and Kenichiro Chomei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal image acquisitor (3) is attached to a wall (4) or a ceiling (5) on a side of a head of a care recipient (1) in a case where the care recipient lies on a bed (2), and captures an image of the bed and its surroundings from diagonally above to acquire a thermal image. Reference setting circuitry (12...