ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,598, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus capable of deleting pause fillers from moving image, information processing system, method of controlling information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing system, and storage medium" was invented by Hirotaka Oda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus capable of easily deleting meaningless utterances from a moving image without making the moving image unnatural. A moving image including sound information is acquired, and contents of an utterance by a speaker, which is recorded i...