US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on May 27 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,480, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Takuya Kuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus is provided which identifies a state of a line of sight of a user, identifies a state of a hand fingers of the user, and controls a hand object representing the hand of the user in a virtual space, in a manner linked with the state of the hand fingers of the user. A state of the hand object is controlled according to the state of the line of sight of the user."

The patent ...