US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 3 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,873, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Manabu Kawashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a background weight calculation unit and a position/orientation estimation unit. The background weight calculation unit calculates, for each of a plurality of feature points included in a photographic image, a weight corresponding to a probability that the feature point is a point on a stationary subject forming a background of the photographic image. Based on a calculatio...