US Patent Issued to RICOH on May 19 for "Image processing method, recording medium, and image processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,071, issued on May 19, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method, recording medium, and image processing system" was invented by Makoto Odamaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Suitoh (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Fukuoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method to be executed by an image processing system includes: estimating a structure of a space inside a construction from a background image in which the space is imaged in all directions; estimating a region in which a virtual object is allowed to be arranged in the space based on the estimated structure; and combining the virtual object ...