US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Information processing that excludes personal information from metadata" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,869, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing that excludes personal information from metadata" was invented by Atsuro Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Eiji Oba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information processing that protects personal information is disclosed. In one example, an information processing apparatus includes a metadata generation unit that generates metadata from information indicating a state of an occupant riding in a mobile body, the information being obtained from a sensor provided in the mobile body. A first encryption unit encrypts the ...