ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,398, issued on May 5.

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Haruka Kawata (Tokyo), Ayako Chiba (Tokyo), Kanako Yana (Tokyo), Chihiro Fukiage (Tokyo), Shigeo Sugimori (Tokyo), Shin Hasegawa (Tokyo), Erina Ohsugi (Tokyo) and Kumiko Matsuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing device that includes a distribution management unit, an event data management unit, and a filter processing unit. The event data management unit performs instruction processing pertaining to image distribution for image data captured at a specific event and transmitted to a serv...