US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 28 for "Position estimation system including infrared sensor array and estimator for monitoring pixel temperature change, and method for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,370, issued on July 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Position estimation system including infrared sensor array and estimator for monitoring pixel temperature change, and method for the same" was invented by Tatsuo Koga (Osaka, Japan), Kazuto Ura (Osaka, Japan) and Jin Yoshizawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position estimation system includes: an obtainer that obtains image information of an image showing an indoor space in which a target object is located; an estimator that estimates coordinates of the target object in the indoor space, based on the image info...