US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 4 for "Information processing device, information processing method, and program for causing a virtual object to perform movement according to a sound reproduced from a real sound source" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,343, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program for causing a virtual object to perform movement according to a sound reproduced from a real sound source" was invented by Takaomi Kimura (Tokyo), Yasuko Ishihara (Tokyo), Hajime Wakabayashi (Tokyo), Atsushi Ishihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Inoue (Chiba, Japan), Hirotake Ichikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Hidenori Aoki (Chiba, Japan) and Ryo Fukazawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device including a control unit that displays a virtual object on a three-dime...