ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,363, issued on July 14, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Movement supporting device, movement supporting method, and program" was invented by Kazuo Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Tomohiro Yabuuchi (Kyoto, Japan), Naoto Iwamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Endri Rama (Kyoto, Japan), Norio Yoshikawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Yohei Niimi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movement support device comprises: an imaging device that acquires a captured image; a controller that calculates a safety degree based on the captured image; a storage that stores a necessary safety degree table in which a predetermined action candidate as an action tha...