US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 22 for "Image capturing device, data acquisition unit, image capturing system, and image capturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,451, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing device, data acquisition unit, image capturing system, and image capturing method" was invented by Hibiki Tatsuno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Ushio (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device includes: an image capturing lens having a central axis; and an image sensor having a sensor surface and a perpendicular line perpendicular to the sensor surface, the image sensor to capture an image of an object surface of an object. A Scheimpflug angle between the central axis and the perpendicular line is set to an angle other than 0...