US Patent Issued to NEC on July 7 for "Monitoring system, monitoring apparatus, and monitoring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,895, issued on July 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring system, monitoring apparatus, and monitoring method" was invented by Tsubasa Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three-dimensional data acquisition means acquires three-dimensional data output from a three-dimensional ranging sensor for scanning a paved surface for aircraft using laser light. Extraction means extracts, from the three-dimensional data, real image data about a real image present on the paved surface and mirage image data about a mirage image corresponding to the real image. Foreign object detection means detects a foreign object left on the...