ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,983, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Kazuhiro Kosugi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masashi Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a ranging sensor which divides a predetermined detection range into a plurality of measurement units to measure the distance to an object for each measurement unit; a memory which temporarily stores distance information indicative of the distance for each measurement unit measured by the ranging sensor; and a processor which executes processi...