US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 2 for "Video distribution apparatus, video distribution method, and video distribution program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,886, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Video distribution apparatus, video distribution method, and video distribution program" was invented by Shinpei Kameoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaomi Nishidate (Tokyo), Norihiro Nagai (Kanagawa, Japan), Norihiro Takahashi (Tokyo) and Kae Nagano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comment that can easily arouse viewer's interest and attention to a game video can be outputted. An attribute information acquisition section acquires viewer attribute information which indicates an attribute of a viewer who has made access to a video distribution apparat...