US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 20 for "Monitoring system, monitoring method, and monitoring program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,949, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring system, monitoring method, and monitoring program" was invented by Tomoya Kouno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a monitoring system, the management device estimates presence or absence of tracking by a security guard having the mobile terminal, extracts a moving object extracted from an image photographed by a camera as a tracking candidate when it is determined that the security guard performs tracking, and highlights the tracking candidate when displaying the tracking candidate photographed by the camera."

The patent was filed on July 3, 2024, under Ap...