US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Jan. 28 for "Additional photographing necessity/unnecessity notifying apparatus, additional photographing necessity/unnecessity notifying method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,255, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Additional photographing necessity/unnecessity notifying apparatus, additional photographing necessity/unnecessity notifying method, and program" was invented by Shogo Sato (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Segawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample image obtaining section repetitively obtains a sample image generated by photographing a given sample by a photographing unit. A feature quantity extracting section generates feature quantity data corresponding to the sample image, in reference to the sample image. The feature quantity extracting section c...