Patent ID: 11948483
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image generation apparatus that generates an image to be displayed on a transmissive display, the image generation apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to generate, when generating an image to be superimposed on a real space, an image whose background region on which a virtual object appearing in the real space is not superimposed is drawn in a background color having a predetermined luminance so as to make a region of a shadow of the virtual object look relatively dark; and
a rendering section adapted to render the background region in a background color reflecting light from a virtual light source striking a mesh structure by rendering not only the virtual object but also the mesh structure in the real space, assuming the virtual light source, to render the shadow of the virtual object appearing in the mesh structure in the real space.