ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,949, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and program" was invented by Takashi Aoki (Saitama, Japan), Fuminori Irie (Saitama, Japan), Kazunori Tamura (Saitama, Japan), Masahiko Miyata (Saitama, Japan) and Yasunori Murakami (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus transmits a virtual viewpoint image generated on the basis of a captured image to a device. The data processing apparatus acquires first data regarding a reproduction history and/or registration data of the virtual viewpoint image, and performs control for transmitting s...