US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Sept. 23 for "Content sharing system with a plurality of users in augmented reality" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,923, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Content sharing system with a plurality of users in augmented reality" was invented by Taishi Yamamoto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Eriko Oseki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Kouki Hayashi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Osamu Goto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Mikio Iwamura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Shinji Kimura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Masayuki Yokoo (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AR system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a user state, an identification unit configured to identify gazed content which is content at which a content sharing source user is gazing, a firs...