US Patent Issued to NEC on March 24 for "Posture estimation apparatus, posture estimation method, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,231, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Posture estimation apparatus, posture estimation method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Kenta Ishihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A posture estimation apparatus includes: a position calculation unit that calculates, for each joint of each of persons detected from image data, a provisional reference position of the person, based on a position of the joint and a displacement from the joint to a site serving as a reference for the person; and a posture estimation unit that determines a person to which the joint belongs based on the provisio...