US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Aug. 18 for "Position detection using directed light events" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,136, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Position detection using directed light events" was invented by Tetsugo Inada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an event-driven type vision sensor that outputs an event signal indicating a two-dimensional position which is located within a field of view of the vision sensor and at which a light intensity change has occurred in a space, and a time of day at which the light intensity change has occurred, a light source that emits light having directivity toward the space, and a position detecting device including an event signal ...