US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 3 for "Detection device, detection method, and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,456, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection device, detection method, and program recording medium" was invented by Chenhui Huang (Tokyo), Kenichiro Fukushi (Tokyo) and Zhenwei Wang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to detect a detailed walking event in both legs on the basis of a physical quantity that relates to leg motion measured by a sensor mounted on one leg, there is provided a detection device including: an extraction unit for generating time-series data that accompany walking, using sensor data based on a physical quantity that relates to leg motion measured by a sensor installed on one l...