US Patent Issued to Canon on July 22 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,689, issued on July 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Ayato Imai (Tokyo) and Masakazu Fujiki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a feature point cloud indicating a three-dimensional shape of an environment where a moving object travels, and an output unit configured to output a two-dimensional map indicating positions of feature points on a two-dimensional plane excluding feature points that represent a feature of a ceiling in t...