US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 29 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,212, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program" was invented by Ryota Sawahashi (Tokyo) and Masataka Toyoura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that enable detection of a non-planar environment at low cost. The information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a detection unit that detects an obstacle location that becomes obstruction for traveling in a traveling direction ...