US Patent Issued to WASEDA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 15 for "Heart rate information concealed video transmission method, program, and device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,363, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to WASEDA UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Heart rate information concealed video transmission method, program, and device" was invented by Jiro Katto (Tokyo), Mayu Arai (Tokyo), Kenji Kanai (Tokyo), Yutaka Katsuyama (Tokyo), Toshio Sato (Tokyo) and Takuro Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heart rate information concealed video transmission device includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter compresses an input video and transmits the compressed video to a network, and the receiver decodes a received compressed stream, and attempts heart rate estimation by rPPG and generation of a biome...