Sony patents AR system that adds virtual objects to your view
Sony has filed a patent for a system that detects specific events, called triggers, and responds by showing virtual objects on a wearable display. This technology is designed for head-mounted devices that overlay digital content onto a live video feed of the real world around the user.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program adapted to provide content more advantageously. An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a detection part configured to detect a trigger and a video control part configured to cause, upon occurrence of the trigger, a virtual object to be displayed on a wearable device displaying a video of a real space corresponding to a field of view of a user. The present technology may be applied to a head-mounted display, for example.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a detection part configured to detect a trigger; and a video control part configured to cause, upon occurrence of the trigger, a virtual object to be displayed on a wearable device displaying a video of a real space corresponding to a field of view of a user.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260277303A1
- Application number
- 19167120
- Filed
- Mar 5, 2024
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 16
Classified under
G06F 3/011 Physics & computingG06T 19/20 Physics & computingG06T 2219/2021 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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