US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on May 6 for "Imaging range estimation device, imaging range estimation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,283, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging range estimation device, imaging range estimation method, and program" was invented by Takuma Isoda (Musashino, Japan), Hirofumi Noguchi (Musashino, Japan), Misao Kataoka (Musashino, Japan) and Kyota Hattori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging range estimation device includes an image data processor configured to acquire image data imaged by a camera device and generate image data with an object name label added, a reference data generator configured to set, by using geographic information, a region within a predetermi...