ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,160, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system, image processing apparatus, imaging device, and recording medium" was invented by Daisuke Hohjoh (Chiba, Japan), Kazuhiro Matsumoto (Tokyo) and Ryoh Fukui (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system includes a plurality of imaging devices facing different directions and an output unit configured to output an output image generated based on the captured images. The plurality of imaging devices is configured to capture images. The output image having been generated based on the captured images covers a range of 360 degrees in at l...