Patent ID: 11962820
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  H  G | IPC A  H

Claim 0:
1. An image generation apparatus comprising:
a game image acquisition section configured to acquire a game image indicative of content to be displayed on a player video display device and an audience video display device, the game image representing at least play status of a game in which a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from a point of view in the virtual three-dimensional space;
a player information image acquisition section configured to acquire a player information image indicative of content to be displayed on one or more of the player video display device and the audience video display device;
an audience information image acquisition section configured to acquire an audience information image indicative of content to be displayed on the audience video display device and not on the player video display device;
a player video display device delivery target two-dimensional image acquisition section configured to acquire a player video display device delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery to the player video display device, the delivery target two-dimensional image having a same resolution as that of an image to be delivered to the player video display device;
an audience video display device delivery target two-dimensional image acquisition section configured to acquire an audience video display device delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery to the audience video display device, the delivery target two-dimensional image having a same resolution as that of an image to be delivered to the audience video display device;
a game image resizing section configured to resize the game image to the resolution of the player video display device delivery target two-dimensional image so as to generate a player video display device resized game image, and to resize the game image to the resolution of the audience video display device delivery target two-dimensional image so as to generate an audience video display device resized game image; and
a delivery image generation section configured to generate a player video display device image for display on the player video display device that combines the player video display device resized game image with the player video display device delivery target two-dimensional image and to generate an audience video display device image for display on the audience video display device that combines the audience video display device resized game image with the audience video display device delivery target two-dimensional image;
wherein the player video display device image includes the player information image content and not the audience information image content, and the audience video display device image includes the player information image content and the audience information image content; and
wherein the player video display device image and the audience video display device image have different resolutions.