US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 24 for "Information processing apparatus, mobile machine, image capturing system, image capturing control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,731, issued on March 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, mobile machine, image capturing system, image capturing control method, and program" was invented by Koichi Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan), Aiko Ohtsuka (Tokyo), Masuyoshi Yachida (Tokyo) and Hanako Bando (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus for controlling an image capturing process for a robot that moves in a predetermined site to capture an image of a target object. The information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores a plurality of reference images that are captured images of...