US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus, image processing system, communication system, method for setting, image processing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,711, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, image processing system, communication system, method for setting, image processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Yoshinaga Kato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: display controlling means for displaying, on a display, a viewable-area image representing a viewable area of a captured image having been captured; and accepting means for receiving an instruction to set the viewable-area image as a detectable area in which an object can be detected."

The patent was filed on Sept. 23, 2020, under Application No....