US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Aug. 25 for "Data processing apparatus and method for concealing private image regions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,328, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Data processing apparatus and method for concealing private image regions" was invented by Lloyd Preston Stemple (London), Sahin Serdar Kocdemir (London), Andrew William Walker (London) and Christopher William Henderson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive an image of a user in an environment; detect an object in the image; perform one of a plurality of user-selectable processes associated with the object, each of the plurality of user-selectable processes being associated with ...