US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on July 7 for "Image processing for display of multi-dimensional objects" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,940, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Image processing for display of multi-dimensional objects" was invented by Akio Ohba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a storage device are stored, as reference maps, a background map, a color map of an object, and a height map of the object as hierarchical data having a plurality of resolutions. An image processing device loads, when necessary, portions thereof which are required for rendering into a main memory according to movement of a viewpoint, etc., decodes and decompresses portions thereof, and develops the resulting pieces of...