ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,044, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, controller display method, and computer program" was invented by Masanori Nomura (Tokyo), Yurika Mulase (Tokyo), Kyo Suzuki (Tokyo), Shoji Watanabe (Tokyo), Shizuka Ohara (Tokyo) and Shoi Yonetomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captured image obtaining section obtains a captured image resulting from capturing in a front direction of a user wearing a head-mounted display (HMD). An estimation processing section estimates the position of an input device on the basis of the captured image in which a controller (...