US Patent Issued to NEC on June 23 for "Control apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,889, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Kazuya Kawakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus (10) includes an image processing unit (110), a movement route estimation unit (120), and a control unit (140). The image processing unit (110) detects occurrence of a specific event by processing an image. The movement route estimation unit (120) determines an object being a person and/or a vehicle being involved in the specific event, and estimates an estimated movement route of the object. The control uni...