ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,606, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for video data depth determination and video modification" was invented by Charles Mccoy (San Diego) and True Xiong (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, process, and device configurations are provided for identifying depth of gaming elements. A method can include detecting at least one game object in video data, wherein the at least one game object is a display element and determining a depth parameter for the at least one game object, wherein the depth parameter is a distance value of the at least one gam...