US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 22 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,874, issued on July 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Katsutoshi Kanamori (Tokyo) and Masato Nishio (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus which includes a control section that controls a conversation with a user according to a recognized situation. The control section acquires knowledge elements related to the recognized situation in terms of knowledge from knowledge sets, and determines contents of an utterance on the basis of the knowledge elements and an utterance template. Further, provi...