US Patent Issued to NEC on July 14 for "Traffic control apparatus, system, method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,750, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traffic control apparatus, system, method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo), Tetsuro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo), Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo) and Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device can capture a video image of a road on which a moving object travels. In a traffic control apparatus, detection means detects the occurrence of an accident from a video image captured by an imaging device. Determination means determines the situation of the accident that has occurred based on the video image captured b...