ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,704, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, communication system, and image transmission method" was invented by Shiori Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hidekuni Annaka (Saitama, Japan), Daisuke Saitoh (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Homma (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method, each of which: transmits video including a wide-view image having a wide angle of view to a communication terminal; and stores, in a predetermined storage destination, the wide-view image received from an image capturing apparatus that captures the wide-view image in response to an image...