US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Nov. 11 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method for generating crowd-avoidance path plans" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,298, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method for generating crowd-avoidance path plans" was invented by Takayoshi Takayanagi (Tokyo), Shohei Yamamoto (Tokyo), Kenta Kawamoto (Tokyo), Kohei Urushido (Tokyo), Shun Lee (Tokyo) and Kazumi Aoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU) that detects a crowd based on images and location information, receives event information from a server, generates crowd information based on the detected crowd and the event information received...