ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,153, issued on May 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Kazuyoshi Horie (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of messages in response to an utterance of a speaker; a calculation unit that calculates a degree of relevance between the utterance and each of the plurality of messages; an identification unit that identifies at least one message that satisfies a predetermined criterion regarding the degree of relevance among the plurality of messages; and a p...