US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 20 for "Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,749, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium" was invented by Makoto Tomioka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiko Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus acquires object placement information including types and a placement relations of object generated on the basis of measurement information acquired by measuring a real-world space, receives query information from a user, and predicts a response to the query information using an object placement characteristics database storing object placement characteristics...