US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Jan. 13 for "Image data generation device, display device, image display system, image data generation method, image display method, and data structure of image data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,391, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image data generation device, display device, image display system, image data generation method, image display method, and data structure of image data" was invented by Kazuyuki Arimatsu (Tokyo), Masaaki Hamada (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Kawahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A viewpoint setting unit of an image data generation device sets a reference viewpoint on a basis of position and orientation information regarding a head-mounted display, and a reference image drawing unit generates a reference image in a field of view corresponding to the ...