ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,755, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Qoncept Inc. (Tokyo).
"Calculation device, calculation system, calculation method, and calculation program" was invented by Kenichi Hayashi (Tokyo) and Shunsuke Nambu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory and a flight distance of a target moving body such as a ball hit by a golf club in an athletic competition such as a golf game may be calculated from the images having been taken. The calculation may be conducted from the pictures having been taken with a monocular camera of low resolution such as a smartphone. An initial velocity and a hitting angle of a target moving body such a...