WIPO PUBLISHES PATENT OF RICOH, KAWAGUCHI KEIICHI, SUITOH HIROSHI, YOSHIDA KAZUHIRO AND ASAI TAKAHIRO FOR "IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM" (JAPANESE INVENTORS)

GENEVA, July 12 -- Publication No. WO/2018/124268 was published on July 5.

Title of the invention: "IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM."

Applicants: RICOH COMPANY LTD. (JP), KAWAGUCHI Keiichi (JP), SUITOH Hiroshi (JP), YOSHIDA Kazuhiro (JP) and ASAI Takahiro (JP).

Inventors: Keiichi Kawaguchi (JP), Hiroshi Suitoh (JP), Kazuhiro Yoshida (JP) and Takahiro Asai (JP).

According to the abstract* posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: "An image processing apparatus includes: an obtainer to obtain a first image and a second image; a display control to control a display to display an image of a predetermined area of the first image, the first image being superimposed with the second image; and a correction unit to correct at least one of brightness and color of at least one of the first image and the second image, either according to a ratio of an area of the second image in the predetermined area with respect to the predetermined area of the first image, or according to a difference between a line of sight direction in the first image and a central point of the second image."

The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2017 under Application No. PCT/JP2017/047192.

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