ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,851, issued on June 30, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Takuma Domae (Tokyo), Junichi Tanaka (Tokyo), Kazuharu Tanaka (Tokyo), Masaaki Matsubara (Tokyo) and Yasunori Matsui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a control unit that performs control to output information regarding an image of a user viewpoint in a virtual space, in which the control unit performs control to switch a display corresponding to a performer included in the image betwee...