ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,286, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Shozo Yoshimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Masakazu Fujiki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiko Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Makoto Tomioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes: a disposition knowledge acquisition unit configured to acquire disposition knowledge information including type information that indicates types of two or more observation targets observed by an observer and positional relationship information between the observati...