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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2022
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Tsuru, Chiba, JP;
Mitsuru Nishibe, Chiba, JP;
Masaki Uchida, Chiba, JP;
Yuto Hayakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kenzo Nishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takehiro Tominaga, Tokyo, JP;
Takanori Minamino, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image generation device sequentially acquires a frameof a moving image captured by a stereo camera included in a head-mounted display, and generates a display imageto be used for video see-through or the like. A crop section of the image generation device crops a regionin which a floor surface appears, and sets the cropped region as an imagefor setting a play area in which the user is movable. In addition, the crop section crops a regionwith a predetermined size in which the front of the head-mounted display appears, and sets the cropped region as an imagefor acquiring state information regarding the head-mounted display.