US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 18 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,980, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Kohei Urushido (Tokyo), Takuto Motoyama (Tokyo), Masahiko Toyoshi (Tokyo) and Shun Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of stereo cameras arranged so that directions of baseline lengths of the stereo cameras intersect each other; a depth estimation unit that estimates, from captured images captured by the plurality of stereo cameras, a depth of an object included in the captured images; and an object detection unit that det...