ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,561, issued on July 28, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE SPORTS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method and image processing system" was invented by Hiroo Takagi (Chichibu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image processing device comprises: a position identification section for identifying positions of two reference points and a position of physical characteristic point of the subject in the moving image; an angle acquisition section for obtaining an angle of a line segment connecting the two reference points with respect to the image plane; a conversion ratio calculation section for calculating a conve...