US Patent Issued to NEC on April 7 for "System, information processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,159, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"System, information processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Kotaro Murayama (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Mizukoshi (Tokyo) and Ryo Kawai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skeleton information acquisition means analyzes an in-vehicle video acquired from a camera that captures an image of a vehicle interior of a moving object, and acquires skeleton information of each of one or more passengers boarding on the moving object. A holding determination means determines whether the passenger is holding a pole, based on skeleton information of the passe...