US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 14 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,745, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Chie Yamada (Tokyo), Noriko Totsuka (Tokyo), Hiroaki Ogawa (Tokyo), Yasuharu Asano (Tokyo), Akira Takahashi (Tokyo), Chika Myoga (Tokyo), Masanobu Nakamura (Tokyo), Kana Nishikawa (Tokyo), Masahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Michael Hentschel (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a region estimating unit estimate candidate regions of object detection from an image, a topic estimating unit that estimates a topic of the image on the...