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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Michael John Williams, Winchester, GB;
Paul Edward Prayle, Basingstoke, GB;
Michael Goldman, London, GB;
William Jack Leathers-Smith, Guildford, GB;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for generating a virtual reality environment comprising: controller circuitry configured to: insert a captured image of an object in the virtual reality environment; move the captured image within the virtual reality environment; pause the movement of the captured image in the virtual reality environment; generate a rendered representation of at least part of the captured image; replace the at least part of the captured image with the rendered representation in the virtual reality environment; and move the rendered representation within the virtual reality environment.