US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 13 for "Intraoral camera system and image capturing operation determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,006, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Intraoral camera system and image capturing operation determination method" was invented by Yoshio Ohtsuka (Osaka, Japan), Masato Izawa (Osaka, Japan), Tomoki Ogawa (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyuki Nakashima (Nara, Japan), Masayuki Aihara (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Funamoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Tadashi Miki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral camera system includes an imaging unit and an image determination unit. The imaging unit generates an image data item showing a target tooth for image capturing inside a mouth....