ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,296, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image providing server, image display method, and image provision method for navigating horizontally or vertically between floor images" was invented by Junichi Muramoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an image processing device including an input information acquiring part that receives a user operation relating to an image displayed on a displaying device, and an image displaying part that, when the input information acquiring part receives an operation for specifying a place by a user, causes the...