ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,099, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and control method for distance measurement based on light emission" was invented by Yoichi Yagasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that avoids interference of rays of light to be emitted from respective terminals for performing distance measurement. The information processing apparatus includes a first light emission unit that performs light emission of invisible light for performing distance measurement, a first acquisition unit that acquires depth information of a real space on ...