ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,032, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive support apparatus, drive support method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Longshuang Huang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive support apparatus capable of performing vehicle control at an appropriate timing in accordance with an attribute of a person existing in surroundings of a vehicle is provided. A drive support apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a detection unit configured to detect a person in an image of surroundings of a vehicle; a calculation unit configured to calculate a positional relation between ...