US Patent Issued to NEC on April 7 for "Device, movement speed estimation system, feeding control system, movement speed estimation method, and recording medium in which movement speed estimation program is stored" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,134, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device, movement speed estimation system, feeding control system, movement speed estimation method, and recording medium in which movement speed estimation program is stored" was invented by Yoshitaka Kawano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movement speed estimation device comprises: a body length calculation unit for calculating, from a video obtained by imaging an aquatic organism with a monocular camera, an apparent body length in the video of a specific portion of the aquatic organism; a movement amount calculation unit for calculating an apparent movement amount ...