ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,256, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).
"Terminal device" was invented by Ken Nakashima (Sakai City, Japan), Yoshitomo Akagi (Sakai City, Japan), Masaki Tabata (Sakai City, Japan) and Shunsuke Ogawa (Sakai City, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal device that can easily photograph a measurement subject and measure bioinformation for the measurement subject. A terminal device comprises an information acquisition unit that acquires an image of a measurement subject captured by a photography unit, a slope detection unit that detects the slope of the face of the measurement subject on...