ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,075, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Satoru Takashimizu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image processing apparatus 100, an image acquiring portion 11 acquires image information. A position acquiring portion 12 acquires an image capturing position and an image capturing direction of the image information. An image-capturing propriety information acquiring portion 13 acquires image-capturing propriety information indicating that a position of an information terminal 200 corresp...