ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,514, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Illumination system and photography system" was invented by Hidemasa Kubota (Sakai, Japan), Kinya Nobori (Sakai, Japan), Hiroshi Kawamura (Sakai, Japan) and Chika Hirakawa (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system includes: an irradiation device that irradiates light to a subject located in front of a displayer that displays a background image; an information acquisition device that acquires subject information for identifying the subject; a storage that stores background image information on the background image displayed on the displayer; a...