ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,214, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, movable body control system, and information processing method" was invented by Makoto Oigawa (Tokyo) and Kazuya Nobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus acquires a first parallax image and a second parallax image, which are parallax images that are a group of images having parallax with each other and captured by an imaging unit with different exposure conditions, acquires reliability, which is an accuracy of a parallax amount of the parallax images, for the first parallax image and the second par...