Sony patents method for defining safe movement zones around objects
Sony has filed a patent application for a method that creates two different virtual boundaries, or geofences, around a target object. By using these two boundaries, the system defines a specific area where a moving object is allowed to travel.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing method includes generating a first geofence spaced from a target object; generating a second geofence spaced from the target object and different from the first geofence; and generating, using the first geofence and the second geofence, a movement region in which a mobile object is movable.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing method, comprising: generating a first geofence spaced from a target object; generating a second geofence spaced from the target object and different from the first geofence; and generating, using the first geofence and the second geofence, a movement region in which a mobile object is movable.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
- Publication number
- US20260289805A1
- Application number
- 19480257
- Filed
- Mar 27, 2024
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 18
Classified under
G06T 7/571 Physics & computingG05D 1/637 Physics & computingG05D 2109/254 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10032 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30184 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30252 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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