US Patent Issued to NEC on March 31 for "Virtual space changing apparatus, virtual space changing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,916, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Virtual space changing apparatus, virtual space changing method, and storage medium" was invented by Shin Norieda (Tokyo), Shogo Akasaki (Tokyo) and Katsuhiko Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to attain an example object of providing a service suitable for a user in a virtual space, a virtual space changing apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires position information and line-of-sight target information, the position information including a position of a user in a virtual space or a record of the position, and the line-of-sight target ...