US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 9 for "Information processing apparatus, three-dimensional position estimation method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,974, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, three-dimensional position estimation method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Natsuki Kai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (10) includes: a detection unit (11) configured to detect, using an image and forks for supporting the transport pallet are captured, a shape of fork insertion slots into which the forks are inserted and a shape of the forks; an acquisition unit (12) configured to acquire a depth image showing depth information of the fork insertion slots and depth inf...