US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 31 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,052, issued on March 31, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Yuhi Kondo (Tokyo), Taishi Ono (Tokyo) and Legong Sun (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a polarized imaging unit that captures time-series polarized images of an object. A polarization information calculating unit calculates polarization information for each polarized image from the time-series polarized images captured by the polarized imaging unit. An object specifying unit specifies the image region of the object on the basis of, for example, a non-polarized image gen...