US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on March 3 for "Monitoring device, transaction processing apparatus, and monitoring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,052, issued on March 3, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring device, transaction processing apparatus, and monitoring method" was invented by Takahiro Ogisu (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device includes a camera positioned to capture an image of a target area in which an evaluation object is to be placed, and a processor configured to, upon receipt of a first image captured by the camera after placing of the evaluation object in the target area, extract an image of the evaluation object from the first image, calculate a first value indicating a feature of the image of the evalua...