US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Oct. 7 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,885, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and medium" was invented by Tomoyuki Shishido (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Privacy of users is protected appropriately in communication via avatars in a virtual space. An image processing device includes: a positional information obtainment unit that obtains information on a position of an avatar (Aa) of a first user in a virtual space and a position of an avatar (Ba) of a second user in the virtual space (SV), the positions being in the virtual space; a boundary region obtainment unit that o...