ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,390, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Koichiro Wanda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masakazu Fujiki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an information processing device processing map information of a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a sensor information acquiring unit acquires output information of a sensor performing measurement relating to a movement amount or the surrounding environment of the vehicle. An error generation amount calculating unit calculates an error ge...