US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on May 27 for "Information processing apparatus and device position estimation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,486, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and device position estimation method" was invented by Kenzo Nishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographed image acquisition unit 212 acquires an image obtained by photographing a device. A sensor data acquisition unit 214 acquires sensor data indicating an acceleration and/or an angular speed of the device. An estimation processing unit 230 estimates a position of the device on the basis of the image obtained by photographing the device. A contact determination unit 232 determines whether or not a us...