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. 12,592,843, issued on March 31, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Yasuharu Asano (Tokyo), Keiichi Yamada (Tokyo), Yoshinori Maeda (Tokyo) and Akira Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes an estimation unit that, when a plurality of participants participating in a remote meeting are divided into a plurality of groups and can have conversation in the groups, estimates a topic of conversation in a group from speech of a participant belonging to the group and a notification...