US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 17 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image capturing system, image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 18 -- United States Patent no. 10,593,014, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image capturing system, image processing method" was invented by Hiroshi Suitoh (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus calculates a first corresponding area in a first image in first projection, corresponding to a second image in second projection, through first homography transformation; transforms a projection of a peripheral area including the first corresponding area to generate a peripheral area image; calculate a second corresponding area in the peripheral area image through second homography transformation; calculate a third corresponding area in the second image, corresponding to a third image in the second projection, through third homography transformation; reversely transform a projection of the second corresponding area to generate first location information based on a first specific corresponding area in the first image; calculate a fourth corresponding area in the peripheral area image through the second homography transformation; and reversely transform a projection of the fourth corresponding area to generate second location information based on a second specific corresponding area in the first image."

The patent was filed on March 18, 2019, under Application No. 16/356,362.

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