ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,071, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Yokohama, Japan).

"Virtual space image generation device and method" was invented by Daisuke Negishi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hidenori Horita (Hamamatsu, Japan), Katsunori Okajima (Yokohama, Japan) and Shumpei Onuki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual space image generation device generates a virtual space image including a visibility change region in which a visibility changes based on movement of a viewpoint of a user. The virtual space image generation device includes an i...