ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,063, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"System and methods for head-mounted display tracking" was invented by Takanori Minamino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaki Uchida (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation processing unit 222 executes processing of estimating at least one of a position or a posture of a head-mounted display on the basis of an image obtained by capturing a vicinity of the head-mounted display. An image generation unit 230 generates a display image to be displayed on a display device different from the head-mounted display. The image generation unit 230 gen...