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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2021
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image generation apparatusaccording to the present disclosure includes a player recognition sectionconfigured to recognize a body of a player, a viewpoint acquisition sectionconfigured to acquire viewpoint information including a viewpoint position and a viewpoint direction, a mesh generation sectionconfigured to generate a mesh structure of the player that reflects a skeleton of the body of the player, on the basis of a result of the recognition, and an image generation sectionconfigured to generate an image by rendering the mesh structure of the player and a virtual object when viewed in the viewpoint direction from the viewpoint position in the viewpoint information, and superimposing the rendered virtual object on the rendered mesh structure of the player.