ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,166, issued on April 7, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Nobuo Iizuka (Tokyo), Naotomo Miyamoto (Tokyo), Masaaki Kikuchi (Tokyo) and Taichi Murakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-precision positioning result in self-positioning is provided. An information processing apparatus acquires a first coordinate position inside an image of each light source included in an image captured with an imaging device among multiple light sources whose coordinate positions are known in a three-dimensional space to deri...