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

Claim 6:
7. An image generation method comprising:
acquiring 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;
acquiring 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;
acquiring an audience information image indicative of content to be displayed on the audience video display device and not on the player video display device;
acquiring 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;
acquiring 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;
resizing 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 resizing 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
generating a player video display device an-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 generating 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.