US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,973, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Kazunori Gouji (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that executes first setting processing for setting a first region within a virtual space based on a line-of-sight of a user viewing the virtual space, and second setting processing for setting a position within the virtual space based on an attitude of the user. In the second setting processing, after the first region is set in the first setting processing, a position to be set is...