ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,902, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Takaki Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of automatically executing processing according to a recognition result from a regression task. An acquirer acquires a first depth image that is a depth image of an area including a subject. Next, a pose estimator estimates coordinates of a plurality of feature points predetermined for the subject on the basis of the acquired first depth image....