ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,798, issued on June 30, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Yuto Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Noriaki Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a viewpoint position detection unit and a correction processing unit. The viewpoint position detection unit detects a viewpoint position (PS) of an observer. The correction processing unit detects a gaze point (GP) on a viewpoint image (VPI) corresponding to the viewpoint position (PS). The correction processing unit blurs an outer edge of the...