US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 15 for "Road deterioration diagnosing device, road deterioration diagnosing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,866, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Road deterioration diagnosing device, road deterioration diagnosing method, and recording medium" was invented by Yosuke Kimura (Tokyo), Nana Jumonji (Tokyo), Chisato Sugawara (Tokyo) and Gaku Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road deterioration diagnosing device includes a deterioration detection unit, a road surface condition detection unit, and a reliability determination unit. The deterioration detection unit detects road deterioration based on an image and/or acceleration acquired by a moving body. The road surface condition detection unit detects, based ...