ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,910, issued on June 9, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Image shooting apparatus for adding information to image" was invented by Hiroyuki Hoshino (Hamura, Japan) and Yuji Kuriyama (Hamura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, an image shooting apparatus includes an imaging unit, a transmission unit, and a processor that is configured to acquire an image captured by the imaging unit to generate a shot image and control the transmission unit to transmit, to an information acquiring apparatus, (i) the shot image, and (ii) instruction information for instructing the info...