ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,928, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and warning presentation method" was invented by Shoichi Ikenoue (Chiba, Japan), Yuji Nakamura (Tokyo) and Yoshihiko Suwa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a user position; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that the user needs to be warned when the user position indicates that the user moves out of a play area set in an obj...