US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Jan. 20 for "Information processing device, method for identifying visual recognition difficult place, and unmanned aerial vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,886, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, method for identifying visual recognition difficult place, and unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Takumi Yamato (Tokyo), Takayoshi Inuma (Tokyo) and Daiki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The management server 2 acquires sensing information obtained by the UAV 1 sensing, from the sky, a scatter area where a colcothar is scattered on a mountain climbing route, identifies a state of the colcothar on the basis of the sensing information, and identifies a visual recognition difficult place on the basis of the state of the...