ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,188, issued on April 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Yuta Sakurai (Tokyo), Kazunori Kamio (Tokyo), Satoshi Kawata (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes an estimation unit and a correction unit. The estimation unit estimates a motion vector of a distance measurement target based on distance information on a distance to the distance measurement target input from a distance measuring device that measures the distance to the distance measurement target...