ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,412, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video analysis apparatus, video analysis method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Jianquan Liu (Tokyo), Ryo Kawai (Tokyo), Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo), Satoshi Yamazaki (Tokyo), Tingting Dong (Tokyo), Karen Stephen (Tokyo), Yuta Namiki (Tokyo), Naoki Shindou (Tokyo) and Youhei Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To utilize a result of analyzing an interval between persons included in a video, a video analysis apparatus 100 includes an interval acquisition unit 110 and a display control unit 113. The interval acquisition unit 110 acquires an interval bet...