ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,137, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Hiroshi Ikeda (Tokyo) and Takashi Itou (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily obtaining a captured image with an appropriate angle of view with a small number of imaging apparatuses. The information processing apparatus includes: a view angle candidate setting unit configured to set a plurality of candidates for an angle of view from a captured im...