ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,321, issued on June 2, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method for obtaining an angle of view of an indicated designated area of a video image to be displayed" was invented by Mayu Hakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichiro Morita (Tokyo) and Hidekuni Annaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes circuitry to obtain coordinates of an attention point in an area of which a video image is to be displayed, based on information indicating a designated area and received from a terminal device, selec...