ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,170, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CELSYS INC. (Tokyo).

"Image generation method and computer-readable medium" was invented by Yosuke Kawakami (Tokyo) and Tetsuro Shimada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generation method of generating an image in which three-dimensional virtual spaces are captured from a virtual camera arranged at a virtual position of a user or in a periphery of the virtual position of the user, includes: identifying a first virtual space to which the user belongs; identifying one or a plurality of second virtual spaces to be an image capturing target among the virtual spaces to which the user does...