US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 23 for "Information processor and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,805, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processor and information processing method" was invented by Kenji Tokutake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor determines distance information associated with a destination based on global positioning system (GPS) data, switches from utilization of the GPS data to utilization of main data based on the distance information, executes a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) process based on the main data and a 3D map of surroundings of the destination, and searches for a route t...