ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,382, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Detection system, method, and storage medium" was invented by Mizuki Mori (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuhiro Ujita (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinya Fujimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: a step of acquiring a captured image of a workplace captured by a camera that is installed above the workplace and has an imaging direction substantially vertically downward; a step of detecting a partial image representing a wearing object worn by a worker from the captured image acquired; a step of acquiring position information indicating a position where the par...