US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Jan. 20 for "Information processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,893, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus" was invented by Moyu Negishi (Musashino, Japan), Kenji Oishi (Musashino, Japan) and Hideo Uemura (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes an image acquisition interface (131) that acquires a video of an inspection target from a flying object (20), the video having been taken by the flying object (20) in flight, a memory (12) storing a reference still image serving as a reference for analysis and a threshold of similarity between the re...