US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,055, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Shinji Ohira (Tokyo), Masakazu Fujiki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Kotake (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus including at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to acquire, based on a measurement value measured by a sensor attached to a moving object, information about a position and an orientation of the moving object and a reliability of position/orientation es...