ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,434, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Event detection system, event detection method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Jianquan Liu (Tokyo), Noboru Yoshida (Tokyo), Ryo Kawai (Tokyo), Uiko Morimoto (Tokyo) and Hirotaka Gochou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event detection system (10) includes: a calculation unit (16) that calculates a degree of similarity between at least a part of skeletal information extracted from a captured image in which a user who is visiting an ATM is captured and at least a part of registration skeletal information, the registration skeletal informat...