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

Claim 1:
2. The image generation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the rendering section is further adapted to render the shadow of the virtual object appearing in the mesh structure in the real space by rendering not only the virtual object but also the mesh structure in the real space;
the image generation apparatus further comprises a pixel value conversion section adapted to heighten colors of all pixels such that the background region uniformly takes on a background color having a predetermined luminance; and
the image generation apparatus further comprises a shadow/background processing section adapted to identify the region of the shadow of the virtual object, set a background region other than the shadow to the background color, and set the region of the shadow to a color whose luminance is equal to or lower than that of the background color.