ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,569, issued on July 22, was assigned to University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan).
"Multi-viewpoint video capturing device" was invented by Itaru Kitahara (Tsukuba, Japan) and Tatsuya Oda (Tsukuba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lighting instrument for an operation is disposed in a space between an operator's head and a patient, thereby configuring a multi-viewpoint video capturing device for a surgical operation in which blocking of a light by the operator's head or body and appearance of the head in a video are avoided. The imaging lighting instrument includes a plurality of cameras and a plurality of lights attached ...