ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,142, issued on March 24, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image capturing method and display method for recognizing a relationship among a plurality of images displayed on a display screen" was invented by Nobutaka Okuyama (Kyoto, Japan), Ryuji Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan) and Susumu Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes a capture part acquiring image data, and a display displaying an image on a display based on the image data. First information acquired includes at least either an azimuth angle or an elevation angle as a direction of the image and at least either an angle...