US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Aug. 5 for "Voice driven modification of sub-parts of assets in computer simulations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,633, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Voice driven modification of sub-parts of assets in computer simulations" was invented by Sudha Krishnamurthy (San Mateo, Calif.) and Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer simulation object such as a chair is described by voice or photo input to render a 2D image. Machine learning may be used to convert voice input to the 2D image. The 2D image is converted to a 3D asset and the 3D asset or portions thereof are used in the computer simulation, such as a computer game, as the object such as a chair."

The patent wa...