US Patent Issued to PFU on July 28 for "Object imaging apparatus and object recognition apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,471, issued on July 28, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Ishikawa, Japan).

"Object imaging apparatus and object recognition apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Fukuda (Ishikawa, Japan) and Nozomi Ogi (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object imaging apparatus includes a housing, a light source inside the housing, a first reflector inside the housing to diffusely reflect light from the light source, a second reflector inside the housing to guide at least a part of light from the light source to the first reflector, and an imager to image an object irradiated with the light from the first reflector. A diffuse reflectance of the...