ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,629, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Live image display support apparatus, game system, and live image display support method" was invented by Akihiro Takano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pieces of game data are stored in a game data storage section in the process of game processing. A game server then transmits, among them, game parameters such as scores and positions of characters and data such as the three-dimensional structure of a virtual world to a live image display support apparatus. The live image display support apparatus performs prioritization and clustering by usin...