ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,783, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage medium storing information processing program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Yutaka Hiramuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blurred image is generated by blurring an image of a virtual space in a range of view from a virtual camera with a degree of blurring depending on a distance from the virtual camera. The blurred image is generated with the degree of blurring additionally depending on an imaging direction of the virtual camera. The blurred image is...