ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,104, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Daisuke Tsuru (Chiba, Japan), Mitsuru Nishibe (Chiba, Japan), Masaki Uchida (Chiba, Japan), Yuto Hayakawa (Tokyo), Kenzo Nishikawa (Tokyo), Takehiro Tominaga (Tokyo) and Takanori Minamino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generation device sequentially acquires a frame 150 of a moving image captured by a stereo camera included in a head-mounted display, and generates a display image 154 to be used for video see-through or the like. A crop section ...