US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 17 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,336, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Masao Eriguchi (Tokyo), Ryo Oguchi (Tokyo) and Shin Takanashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes an image generating section that generates, in reference to computer graphics (CG) data, a virtual space image corresponding to an imaging range of an imaging section on a real space. For example, a virtual imaging section is installed on a virtual space in a manner corresponding to the imaging section on the real space, and a CG object on the ...