ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,694, issued on July 21, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Information processing device to display sample image and comparative sample image of mode specified by a user side by side" was invented by Yurika Takayama (Kahoku, Japan), Toshihiko Nagae (Kahoku, Japan) and Hirotaka Furuya (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus to improve usability when a user sets an imaging mode or an image processing mode. An information processing apparatus includes a storage where, for each of a plurality of imaging modes or image processing modes, a comparative imaging mode different from...