US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Sept. 2 for "Image processing apparatus and method with capture direction recommendations" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,911, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method with capture direction recommendations" was invented by Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Takashi Tomooka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a receiving section that receives a captured image of a target object, a recognizing section that performs recognition of the target object by extracting feature points of the target object on the basis of the captured image, a recommending section that gives recommendation regarding an imaging direction on the basis of a type of the target...