US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on April 7 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,231, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Takeshi Ohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device that includes an image acquisition unit, a measurement unit, and a recognition processing unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image by receiving external light by a light receiving unit. The measurement unit measures a distance to a subject by using a first image based on the image acquired by the image acquisition unit in response to emission of infrared light from a light emitting ...