US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 15 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,708, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Kenji Sugihara (Tokyo) and Mari Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is desirable to provide a technology making it possible to enhance noticeability of a virtual object. Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a display controlling section that causes a display device to start displaying a first virtual object while a user is moving in a real space, performs distance keeping control to substantially keep a distance between the user and the fir...