ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,591, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and image processing method" was invented by Mari Saito (Tokyo), Kenji Sugihara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Soichiro Inatani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device that includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to a display device. The processing circuitry receives information related to a status transition of a user during display of a spherical content image of virtual space, where the spherical content image covers an entire field of view of the user, receives a real-space image acquired ...