ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,774, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus based on audience emotion for audience placement" was invented by Kenji Makino (Saitama, Japan), Masahiro Terada (Saitama, Japan), Daisuke Hayashi (Saitama, Japan) and Shunta Ego (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an information processing system, an information processing method, and an information processing apparatus that can grasp an emotion transmission ability. An index of emotion of a person in a first area is measured. Map data representing t...