US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Dec. 9 for "Rendering an avatar with virtual accessories" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,435, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Rendering an avatar with virtual accessories" was invented by Yoshinori Ohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generation apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure includes a player recognition section 102 configured to recognize a body of a player, a viewpoint acquisition section 103 configured to acquire viewpoint information including a viewpoint position and a viewpoint direction, a mesh generation section 105 configured to generate a mesh structure of the player that reflects a skeleton of the body of the player, on the bas...