US 11,688,127 B2
Apparatus and method for data aggregation
Maria Chiara Monti, London (GB); Fabio Cappello, London (GB); Matthew Sanders, Hertfordshire (GB); Timothy Edward Bradley, London (GB); and Oliver Hume, London (GB)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/470,225.
Claims priority of application No. 2014735 (GB), filed on Sep. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0092846 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 15/20 (2011.01); A63F 13/26 (2014.01); A63F 13/525 (2014.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 15/20 (2013.01) [A63F 13/26 (2014.09); A63F 13/525 (2014.09); G06F 3/013 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data processing apparatus, comprising:
input circuitry to receive viewpoint data indicative of respective viewpoints for a plurality of spectators of a virtual environment;
detection circuitry to detect a portion of the virtual environment viewed by each of the respective viewpoints in dependence upon the viewpoint data, wherein one or more of the respective viewpoints are a static or dynamic view of one or more parts of an in-game virtual environment;
selection circuitry to select one or more regions of the virtual environment in dependence upon at least some of the detected portions; and
output circuitry to output data indicative of one or more of the selected regions.