ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,289, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Hasan Arslan (Tokyo), Josue Cuevas Juarez (Tokyo) and Rajasekhar Sanagavarapu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (1) includes: an acquisition unit (101) configured to acquire an object image that contains one or more objects; a first inference unit (105) configured to infer one or more rectangular areas that respectively surround the one or more objects in the object image, and a type of each of the one ...