ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,790, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Daisuke Sasaki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method in which data of content is acquired, and a first visual field image corresponding to a visual field of a first user is cut out from a content image based on the data of the content. In addition, visual field information representing a visual field of a second user viewing the content ...