ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,493, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Data processing apparatus and method" was invented by Andrew William Walker (London) and Sahin Serdar Kocdemir (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive an image of a user in an environment; determine a region of the environment in the image in which motion of the user is expected, the motion of the user being associated with interactive content experienced by the user; identify one or more attributes of a detected object in the image, a portion of the detected object being within the ...