US Patent Issued to NTT on Aug. 25 for "Rotation state estimation apparatus, method thereof, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,376, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Rotation state estimation apparatus, method thereof, and program" was invented by Dan Mikami (Tokyo), Susumu Yamamoto (Tokyo), Makio Kashino (Tokyo), Naoki Saijo (Tokyo), Masumi Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Takehiro Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotation state of an object obtained from an input video of a plurality of frames in time series is estimated by using an object image obtained by excluding at least a part of a region common to the plurality of frames from an image corresponding to the object."

The patent was filed on Jan. 28, 2021, under Application No. 1...