ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,840, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Behavior estimation device, behavior estimation method, and recording medium" was invented by Ryuhei Ando (Tokyo) and Yasunori Babazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the behavior estimation device, a person feature extraction means extracts a feature of a person detected from a plurality of images in a time series. An object feature extraction means extracts a feature of an object detected from the plurality of images. A peripheral feature extraction means extracts a feature of a periphery of the person in the plurality of images. A feature aggregation means exe...