ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,015, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Masashi Nakata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus provide for: capturing an image of a subject from a position; capturing a plurality of images of the subject from a plurality of further positions around the position such that the plurality of captured images of the subject are different in image quality or view angles than the image of the subject from the position; and generating data to be output on a basis of the image captured from the position and the plurality of images captu...