US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 25 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,859, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Hideki Noma (Tokyo) and Katsutoshi Kanamori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires, from a storage unit that stores episode data of a speaker, the episode data regarding topic information included in utterance data of the speaker. The information processing apparatus further includes an interaction control unit that controls an interaction with the speaker so as to include an...