ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,260, issued on May 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program" was invented by Ryoma Oami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To efficiency search for an object associated with a sensed event, an information processing apparatus includes a sensor that analyzes a captured video and senses whether a predetermined event has occurred, a determining unit that determines a type of an object to be used as query information based on a type of the event in response to sensing of the event occurrence, and a generator that detects the object of th...