US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on May 12 for "Information processing apparatus and program for presenting information regarding a virtual viewpoint used in rendering a 3D model" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,454, issued on May 12, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and program for presenting information regarding a virtual viewpoint used in rendering a 3D model" was invented by Masato Shimakawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus (information processing apparatus) includes a volumetric image shooting unit (first acquisition unit) that acquires a plurality of real images respectively captured by a plurality of cameras (first imaging devices) arranged around a subject, a volumetric image generation unit (generation unit) that generates a 3D model of the subjec...