US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Dec. 16 for "Imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,773, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Masayuki Imanishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are intended to suppress an increase in a load. A captured image is linked with a hash value for a part of the captured image and part identification information for identifying the part. Further, the part of the captured image is extracted from the captured image in referen...