US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on Sept. 22 for "Position obtaining device, position obtaining method and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,889, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Position obtaining device, position obtaining method and storage medium" was invented by Nobuo Iizuka (Hamura, Japan), Naotomo Miyamoto (Tokyo), Masaaki Kikuchi (Fussa, Japan) and Taichi Murakami (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position obtaining device includes a processor. The processor, in response to a condition being met, derives a first attitude angle as an attitude angle of the device based on first light sources and positions thereof on an image obtained by a first camera; in response to the attitude angle of the device being known, deri...