US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus for creating shared virtual AR conversational space on the network for multiple participants" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,021, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Apparatus for creating shared virtual AR conversational space on the network for multiple participants" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain video from a AR devices, determine, based on the video data, orientations of users of the AR devices relative to object in respective physical spaces, generate generating a common scene description based on the orientation, and control, based on the common scene...