US Patent Issued to NEC on June 30 for "Estimation device, estimation method, and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,280, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimation device, estimation method, and program recording medium" was invented by Chenhui Huang (Tokyo), Kenichiro Fukushi (Tokyo), Zhenwei Wang (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kajitani (Tokyo), Fumiyuki Nihey (Tokyo) and Kentaro Nakahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device that includes a detection unit that detects a terminal stance period from time-series data of sensor data based on a physical quantity related to movement of a foot measured by a sensor provided at a foot portion, a feature amount extraction unit that extracts a feature amount from an angular wa...