ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,434, issued on April 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, display range decision method, and program for deciding a display range of a switching destination viewpoint image" was invented by Sho Ogura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a display range decision unit configured, in switching a display image as to multiple-viewpoint images capable of displaying a display target from multiple viewpoints, from a switching source viewpoint image corresponding to a switching source viewpoint to a switching ...