US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Jan. 13 for "Method for capturing image, method for processing image, image capturing system, and information processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,517, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for capturing image, method for processing image, image capturing system, and information processing system" was invented by Hibiki Tatsuno (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Akita (Tokyo), Hideomi Sakuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Ushio (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for capturing a subject, using an image capturing device mounted on a mobile apparatus. The image capturing device divides a target area of the subject into a plurality of image capturing areas in a moving direction of the mobile apparatus, and captures the plurality of image cap...