US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on May 20 for "Data processing device, data processing method, and robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,089, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

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

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 human sensing using an appropriate algorithm. The data processing device according to one aspect of the present technology adaptively selects to execute a human sensing program in which a human sensing algorithm to sense a human on the basis of sensor data output from a sensor mounte...