ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,202, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Ryota Hama (Hiroshima, Japan), Yusuke Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan), Yoichiro Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Seiji Saiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device or the like capable of improving continuity of a moving image outputted to an image output device of a remote operation device even in circumstances where an inter-frame difference of the moving image becomes large. When it is predicted that a data amount of a captured image is to exceed a threshold in consideratio...