US Patent Issued to RICOH on Feb. 10 for "Omnidirectional camera system with improved point of interest selection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,859, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Omnidirectional camera system with improved point of interest selection" was invented by Hideki Shiro (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichiro Morita (Tokyo), Hidekuni Annaka (Saitama, Japan), Takeshi Homma (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Soneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomonori Aikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takafumi Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device includes an imaging device and circuitry. The imaging device captures an image. The circuitry defines a point of interest in the image, converts the defined point of interest in accordance with attitude info...