US Patent Issued to Canon on May 19 for "System and method for managing a virtual object" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,062, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"System and method for managing a virtual object" was invented by Hiroyuki Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a virtual object includes a management unit configured to manage a virtual object by associating a feature amount, with identification information about the virtual object, in a real world for displaying the virtual object in association with the real world, wherein the management unit further associates, with the identification information about the virtual object, a parameter used for controlling a display relative to anothe...