US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Information processing apparatus determining moving direction of a movable unit based on objects existing around the movable unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,862, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus determining moving direction of a movable unit based on objects existing around the movable unit" was invented by Yuma Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire information about a group consisting of a plurality of objects that exist around a movable unit and are each configured to be movable, acquire information about a direction from the movable unit to a destination, and determine a ...