US Patent Issued to NTT on Jan. 27 for "Field expansion device, field expansion method, field expansion program, and field expansion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,930, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Field expansion device, field expansion method, field expansion program, and field expansion system" was invented by Takeru Isaka (Musashino, Japan), Shinya Shimizu (Musashino, Japan) and Shiro Ozawa (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field-of-view expansion device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire an image around a user captured by a camera installed in a vicinity of the user, convert an image outside a center visual field of the user of the image acquired to naturally connect to a vision of the center visual field of the user, and display t...