US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on May 5 for "Psychological state display system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,401, issued on May 5, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Psychological state display system" was invented by Shozo Oshio (Osaka, Japan), Mitsuru Nitta (Kyoto, Japan), Ryosuke Shigitani (Osaka, Japan), Akiko Takimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Maruyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A psychological state display system includes a near-infrared light source that outputs outside light toward a plurality of persons, the output light including a first near-infrared radiation having a wavelength of greater than or equal to 780 nm and less than 2,500 nm; an imaging device that re...