ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,816, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus generates and outputs a virtual viewpoint image with reference to a position and an orientation of a target object included in an imaging region on the basis of a plurality of images obtained by imaging the imaging region with a plurality of imaging devices of whic...