US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOUSING SOLUTIONS on March 31 for "Excrement determination method, excrement determination device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,001, issued on March 31, was assigned to PANASONIC HOUSING SOLUTIONS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Excrement determination method, excrement determination device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Hideyuki Maehara (Osaka, Japan), Hirofumi Kanai (Osaka, Japan) and Yuka Yamada (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excrement determination device acquires image data of excrement captured by a camera which is provided to photograph an inner part of a bowl of a toilet, calculates a G/R value and a B/R value on the basis of an R (red) value, a G (green) value, and a B (blue) value each included in ...