ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,446, issued on June 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Hideyuki Ichihashi (Tokyo), Noriaki Takahashi (Tokyo), Takaaki Suzuki (Tokyo), Haruka Mitsumori (Tokyo), Yuto Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Takashi Nomoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image acquisition section, a depth acquisition section, and a superimposition processor. The image acquisition section acquires a captured image of a first user who uses a stereoscopic display. The depth ...