US Patent Issued to RICOH on April 14 for "Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,745, issued on April 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method" was invented by Kenichiroh Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to input at least a first captured image and a second captured image. The first captured image and the second captured image have an overlapping area. The overlapping area in the first captured image has a plurality of target areas in each of which a stitching position is to be obtained. The plurality of target areas is arranged in an orthogonal direction with respect to a d...