US Patent Issued to RICOH on Oct. 21 for "Moving image generation apparatus, moving image generation method, program, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,539, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Moving image generation apparatus, moving image generation method, program, and recording medium" was invented by Takayuki Hara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a moving image generation apparatus that generates a moving image having a normal angle of view from a plurality of panoramic images. The moving image generation apparatus includes a goodness-of-fit-index calculation unit 103 configured to calculate goodness-of-fit-indices of camerawork types of a virtual camera with respect to the plurality of panoramic images...