US Patent Issued to NEC on June 30 for "Information providing system, information providing method and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,713, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information providing system, information providing method and program recording 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 information providing system comprises detection means detecting an evaluation target person who is a potential user of a public transportation based on image input from a camera; evaluation means calculating at least one of a first evaluation value indicating a possibility of use of public transportation by the evalu...