US Patent Issued to O&O on March 25 for "Position information providing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,151, issued on March 25, was assigned to O&O LLC (Tokyo).

"Position information providing system" was invented by Akihiro Ono (Tokyo), Ayako Ono (Tokyo) and Hiroko Sugano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position information providing system includes: an information device which includes a GPS sensor and a camera, the information device being configured to extract image data including subject identification information for identifying a photographing subject from image data acquired by the camera, and to generate subject location information that associates position information acquired by the GPS sensor and the subject ident...