ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,598, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Mitsuyoshi Arakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus divides a plurality of objects into objects of interest and objects of non-interest, and generates a projection image of the objects of non-interest integrated into one image and a projection image of the objects of interest. The information processing apparatus composes the projection image of the objects of interest and the projection image of the objects of non-interest, and displays a resultant...