US Patent Issued to Sony Group on June 3 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,416, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Satoshi Asai (Tokyo), Jiro Kawano (Tokyo), Shoji Watanabe (Tokyo), Taku Sugawara (Tokyo), Hironori Hattori (Tokyo) and Suguru Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image processing section that generates visual information that is to be superimposed on or around a ball in a play video being a video of table-tennis play and that indicates a characteristic of the ball including at least one of a spin spee...