US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 23 for "Information processing apparatus, movable apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,272, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, movable apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hitoshi Fukamachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus that controls the movement of a movable apparatus acquires information regarding surroundings of the movable apparatus, analyzes the type of an object that is present around the movable apparatus by using the acquired sensor information, and generates or updates an environment map that is surrounding information of the movable apparatus on the basis of t...