US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 18 for "Information processing system, communication system, and image sharing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,148, issued on March 18, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, communication system, and image sharing method" was invented by Takeshi Homma (Hyogo, Japan), Hidekuni Annaka (Saitama, Japan) and Daisuke Saitoh (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes circuitry that: transmits video including a first wide-view image captured by an image capturing apparatus to each of a plurality of communication terminals; transmits an image capturing request to the image capturing apparatus in response to receiving a request for capturing the second wide-view image...