US Patent Issued to NIKON on May 27 for "Portable information device having real-time display with relevant information" (Japanese, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,950, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Portable information device having real-time display with relevant information" was invented by Hideya Inoue (Yokohama, Japan), Toru Iwaoka (Amsterdam), Michiko Noborisaka (Yokohama, Japan), Masayuki Hatori (Soka, Japan) and Tomohide Hamada (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information device includes: an image sensor; a position information acquisition portion that outputs position information; an orientation sensor; and a display that displays an image of an object output from the image sensor and displays relevant information on the object, the r...