ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,582, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and image generation method" was invented by Nodoka Tokunaga (Tokyo), Kiyobumi Matsunaga (Tokyo) and Masahiro Fujihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including at least one processor that has hardware. The at least one processor generates a first content image in a three-dimensional virtual reality space to be displayed on a head-mounted display, generates a second content image to be displayed on a flat-screen display, and generates a third content image...