ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,483, issued on July 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, program, and mobile device" was invented by Masato Nishio (Tokyo) and Yuhei Yabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is intended to allow an orientation of a mobile device observed in imaging data to be more appropriately specified. There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit that acquires the imaging data and a direction specification unit that analyzes the imaging data to specify the orientation of the mobile device observed in the imaging data."

The patent was fil...