US Patent Issued to NTT on April 21 for "Object detection device, method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,819, issued on April 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Object detection device, method, and program" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Uzawa (Tokyo), Daisuke Kobayashi (Tokyo), Saki Hatta (Tokyo), Yuya Omori (Tokyo) and Shuhei Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calculation unit (22) sets each frame, of a moving image including a plurality of frames, as a target frame, calculates a motion vector with reference to a reference frame over an entirety of the target frames, and calculates an index indicating a magnitude of change between a key frame and the target frame, which is represented by using the mot...