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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2022
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Fabio Cappello, London, GB;
Danjeli Schembri, London, GB;
Mandana Jenabzadeh, London, GB;
Oliver Hume, London, GB;
Michael Lee Jones, London, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for positioning objects within an environment includes: an input unit operable to receive data representative of at least a portion of an environment comprising one or more features associated with the environment; an object determining unit operable to identify, for one or more objects, one or more features associated with each respective object, and operable to determine which of the one or more objects are to be positioned within the environment; and an object positioning unit operable to position the one or more determined objects within the environment in dependence upon at least one of the features associated with the environment and at least one of the features associated with each respective determined object, where the object positioning unit is operable to utilise a machine learning model, trained using one or more examples of one or more other objects positioned within at least a portion of one or more other environments in dependence upon at least one feature associated with each respective other environment and at least one feature associated with each respective other object as an input, to position the one or more determined objects within the environment.