ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,733, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Control device and control method" was invented by Kuniaki Torii (Tokyo), Mikio Nakai (Tokyo) and Yusuke Kudo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a recognizing unit that recognizes an external environment based on sensing information, an action decision managing unit that, based on the recognized external environment, decides on actions to be taken, a behavior managing unit that, based on at least either difficulty level of recognition for the recognizing unit or difficulty level of action decision for the action decision managing unit, deter...