US Patent Issued to NEC on May 19 for "Monitoring apparatus, monitoring system, monitoring method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,969, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring apparatus, monitoring system, monitoring method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Tatsushi Yasuda (Tokyo) and Satoru Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring apparatus 10 includes: a monitoring line setting unit 11 that sets a monitoring line in an image acquired from the image capturing unit; and an overlapping detection unit 12 that detects overlapping between an object in the image and the monitoring line. If overlapping is detected by the overlapping detection unit 12, the monitoring line setting unit 11 sets a new monitoring...