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Sony patents tech to make 3D objects match the look of virtual worlds

Sony describes a system that analyzes the visual style of a virtual environment and automatically adjusts a user's 3D object to fit in. The software takes data on the scene's appearance and modifies the object's style before placing it in the metaverse.

Why it mattersThis could make virtual spaces feel more cohesive by ensuring user-added items blend in with the surrounding digital scenery.

In the filing’s own words

There is provided an information processing apparatus to adjust an appearance of a three-dimensional object according to visual features of a metaverse. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires an analysis result of visual features of a virtual world, a style adjustment section that adjusts a user's 3D object data on the basis of the analysis result, and an output section that deploys the adjusted 3D object data in the virtual world so as to place a 3D object corresponding to the 3D object data in the virtual world.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition section that acquires an analysis result of visual features of a virtual world; a style adjustment section that adjusts a user's 3D object data on a basis of the analysis result; and an output section that deploys the adjusted 3D object data to the virtual world so as to place a 3D object corresponding to the 3D object data in the virtual world.

Facts

Company
Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
Official title
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, and PROGRAM
Publication number
US20260278971A1
Application number
19167779
Filed
Feb 5, 2024
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
12

Classified under

G06T 19/20 Physics & computingG06T 2219/2021 Physics & computingG06T 2219/2024 Physics & computing

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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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