US Patent Issued to NEC on June 2 for "Calculation device, calculation method, and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,453, issued on June 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Calculation device, calculation method, and program recording medium" was invented by Chenhui Huang (Tokyo), Kenichiro Fukushi (Tokyo) and Zhenwei Wang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to calculate, with a high degree of accuracy, step lengths for both feet on the basis of a physical quantity relating to the movement of one foot, this calculation device includes: a detection unit that generates a walking waveform using sensor data and detects a walking event from the generated walking waveform, the sensor data being based on a physical quantity that is measured b...