US Patent Issued to Nintendo on July 1 for "System, method, and computer readable medium with program for virtual camera placement in a virtual environment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,626, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"System, method, and computer readable medium with program for virtual camera placement in a virtual environment" was invented by Masato Kuwahara (Kyoto, Japan), Kochi Kawai (Kyoto, Japan), Tatsuya Ajimizu (Kyoto, Japan), Shingo Horiguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Keisuke Seko (Kyoto, Japan), Yuriko Sakai (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinji Kurimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an image processing system includes a first HMD worn by a first user and a smart device carried by a second user. In a virtual space, a second virtual camera and a second object ...