U.S. Patent 8072470 was awarded to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. on 2011-12-06 and describes a “System and method for providing a real-time three-dimensional interactive environment.” This patent has been cited 329 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative furniture, games patents in the field of other fields. The abstract states:

An invention is provided for affording a real-time three-dimensional interactive environment using a three-dimensional camera. The invention includes obtaining two-dimensional data values for a plurality of pixels representing a physical scene, and obtaining a depth value for each pixel of the plurality of pixels using a depth sensing device. Each depth value indicates a distance from a physical object in the physical scene to the depth sensing device. At least one computer-generated virtual object is inserted into the scene, and an interaction between a physical object in the scene and the virtual object is detected based on coordinates of the virtual object and the obtained depth values. Link: U.S. Patent 8072470

This patent was originally filed on 2003-05-29 which gives it a processing time of 3113 days, compared to an average processing time of 1476 in the field. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has 2163 total patents. The first named inventor is Richard L. Marks of Pleasanton, CA. The assistant examiner was Andrew G Yang.

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