US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 4 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,512, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Ryo Watanabe (Tokyo) and Mikio Nakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a classification unit and a generation unit. The classification unit classifies an object detected in a space on a basis of a predetermined criterion. The generation unit sets a priority for the object on a basis of a classification result by the classification unit, and generates position-related information regardin...