US Patent Issued to Kobelco Construction Machinery on Sept. 1 for "Image capturing function control system and image capturing function control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,708, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Image capturing function control system and image capturing function control method" was invented by Daiki Ishida (Hiroshima, Japan), Ryota Hama (Hiroshima, Japan), Seiji Saiki (Tokyo) and Yoichiro Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or the like capable of improving convenience of recognizing a surrounding situation of a working machine for an operator by controlling an image capturing function of an actual machine image capturing device in an appropriate manner in consideration of a state of the working machine is...