US Patent Issued to Warner Bros. Entertainment on Nov. 25 for "Social and procedural effects for computer-generated environments" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,875, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Social and procedural effects for computer-generated environments" was invented by Gregory I. Gewickey (Los Angeles), Gary Lake-Schaal (Los Angeles), Piotr Mintus (Seattle), Lewis S. Ostrover (Los Angeles) and Michael Smith (Hermosa Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor coupled to an AR/VR headset detects an eye convergence distance. A processor adjusts a focus distance for a virtual camera that determines rendering of a three-dimensional (3D) object for a display device of the headset, based on at least one of the eye converge...