ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,910, issued on July 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ground system and image processing method" was invented by Suguru Aoki (Tokyo), Ryuta Satoh (Tokyo) and Itaru Shimizu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image processing method to efficiently acquire data from an artificial satellite. A ground system includes an image processing unit that requests transmission of additional data related to partial data from an artificial satellite to a ground station, on the basis of an analysis result of the partial data of a satellite image captured by the artificial satellite."
The patent was filed on Dec. 9, 2021,...