US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on April 29 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,412, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Hajime Kato (Tokyo), Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Bjorn Stenger (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an information processing apparatus, including: a graph image acquisition unit configured to acquire a graph image; a graph classification unit configured to classify the graph image acquired by the graph image acquisition unit by graph type; a probability map generation unit configured to generate, from the graph image, a probability map that is of a different ty...