US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe on July 1 for "Method and system for generating a target image from plural multi-plane images" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,022, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).

"Method and system for generating a target image from plural multi-plane images" was invented by Andrew James Bigos (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an image of a scene from a target viewpoint is provided. The method comprises capturing a plurality of multi-plane images of a virtual scene, and determining for each multi-plane image, whether a frontmost clipping plane pair defined for that multi-plane image intersects a virtual object in the virtual scene. Responsive to a positive determination for a respective clipp...