US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 18 for "Data processing device, data processing method, and robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,844, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data processing device, data processing method, and robot" was invented by Masahiro Otsuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Norifumi Goto (Tokyo) and Kenichi Seta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a data processing device, a data processing method, and a robot capable of performing environment sensing using an appropriate algorithm. The data processing device according to one aspect of the present technology is provided with a sensing control unit configured to adaptively select and execute an environment sensing program in which an environment sensing algor...