ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,562, issued on May 6, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Soichi Hagiwara (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition module, a first extraction module, a first generation module, a second extraction module, a derivation module, and a first output control module. The first acquisition module acquires an input image to output a first image and a second image. The first extraction module extracts first characteristic point information from the first image....