US Patent Issued to SONY on May 13 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,833, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and program" was invented by Yasuhiro Suto (Tokyo), Masaki Fukuchi (Tokyo), Kenichirou Ooi (Kanagawa, Japan), Jingjing Guo (Tokyo) and Kouichi Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing ...