US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 27 for "Intraoral camera system and image display method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,564, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Intraoral camera system and image display 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 processor. If a first angle formed by an imaging plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the imaging unit and a first direction that is the vertical...