US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Information processing apparatus for acquiring actual viewpoint position and orientation and virtual viewpoint position and orientation of user, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,578, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus for acquiring actual viewpoint position and orientation and virtual viewpoint position and orientation of user, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Takanori Katsumata (Tokyo) and Takabumi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit for acquiring an actual viewpoint position and orientation and a virtual viewpoint position and orientation of a first user, a second acquisition unit for acquiring an actual viewpoint position and o...