Patents Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240135912
    Abstract: A noise cancellation system comprising an audio identification unit configured to identify audio to which a noise cancellation process is to be applied, an output generation unit configured to generate one or more noise cancellation signals in dependence upon the identified audio, and two or more audio output units each configured to reproduce a respective subset of the generated one or more noise cancellation signals, such that the two or more audio output units are configured to produce different outputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Calum Armstrong, Alan Murphy
  • Publication number: 20240134110
    Abstract: The number of light sources that emit light according to identification information regarding an input device is reduced. An input device (10) includes a first light source (S1), a second light source (S2), a first illumination part (E1) that is illuminated by light from the first light source (S1) in order to indicate identification information allocated to the input device, two second illumination parts (E2) that are placed at positions different from a position of the first illumination part (E1) and that are illuminated by light from the second light source in order to indicate the identification information, and a light guide member (50) that guides the light from the second light source (E2) to the two second illumination parts (E2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ryu Sannomiya, Takeshi Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20240131438
    Abstract: Provided are a moving image reception device, a control method, and a program which can reduce a sense of discomfort felt by a user in a situation in which a moving image generated by a moving image transmission device in response to an operation on the moving image reception device is displayed on the moving image reception device. An operation data transmission unit transmits operation data corresponding to an input operation of the user to a cloud server. An image data reception unit receives, from the cloud server, interval data representing a time from reception of the operation data to a start of generation of the frame image based on this operation data in the cloud server. A transmission timing control unit controls a timing of the transmission of the next operation data, on the basis of the interval data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu TANIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240134455
    Abstract: A force sense presentation device 1 includes a base body 2 that is gripped by a hand of a user, a movable unit 3 having a finger placement portion 5 on which the user is to place a fingertip in a state in which the base body 2 is gripped by the user, and a moving mechanism that moves the movable unit 3 with respect to the base body 2. The base body 2 is held by two or more fingers. The finger placement portion 5 has a finger engagement portion 4 provided thereon uprightly in a direction different from a moving direction of the movable unit 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yuta KODA
  • Publication number: 20240131428
    Abstract: A graphics rendering apparatus, comprising: a first receiving unit configured to receive mesh data comprising a mesh that defines a geometry of a virtual element that is comprised within a virtual environment of a video game; a second receiving unit configured to receive one or more input signals; an animation unit configured to cause the virtual element to perform a given predefined action in response to one or more of the input signals; a determination unit configured to determine whether the virtual element has performed the given predefined action at least a threshold number of times; an identification unit configured to identify one or more predefined mesh deformations associated with the given predefined action if the virtual element has performed the given predefined action at least the threshold number of times; a deformation unit configured to deform one or more subsets of the mesh in accordance with one or more of the predefined mesh deformations, and at least in part thereby generate subsequent mes
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Lazaros Michailidis
  • Patent number: 11967087
    Abstract: To track certain difficult facial features during speech such as the corners of the mouth and the teeth, a camera sensor system generates RGB/IR images and the system also uses light intensity change signals from an event driven sensor (EDS), as well as voice analysis. In this way, the camera sensor system enables improved performance tracking (equivalent to using very high-speed camera) at lower bandwidth and power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyong Ye, Yuichiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11964209
    Abstract: A machine learning (ML) model is used to identify spam messages and spammers in computer game settings based on learned gamer behavior. An evaluator module receives score(s) from the ML model indicating whether a particular message is spam or other undesired message and when the scores satisfy a threshold, passes the message to a punishment module to determine whether the warn, suspend, or ban the sending account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Salazar, Xiaohan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11966278
    Abstract: A method of error logging includes: receiving from a user interface a first input from a user indicating that they have seen a visible error in a displayed graphical output of a computer application, tracking the gaze of the user to estimate the position, on at least a first display showing at least part of the displayed graphical output, at which the user's gaze is directed, receiving from the user interface a second input from the user indicating that they have identified the visible error with their gaze, capturing data relating to the displayed graphical output of the computer application, the data including a capture of at least part of the displayed graphical output including the identified visible error, and the estimated positon of the user's gaze with respect to the displayed graphical output, and generating an error report including the captured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Jacobus Breugelmans
  • Patent number: 11967127
    Abstract: Systems and methods capture image dynamics and use those captured image dynamics for image feature recognition and classification. Other methods and systems train a neural network to capture image dynamics. An image vector representing image dynamics is extracted from an image of an image stream using a first neural network. A second neural network, predicts a previous and/or subsequent image in the image stream from the image vector. The predicted previous and/or subsequent image is compared with an actual previous and/or subsequent image from the image stream. The first and second neural networks are trained using the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Komath Naveen Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240127629
    Abstract: A system includes a first image sensor that generates a first image signal by synchronously scanning all pixels at a prescribed timing, a second image sensor including an event-driven type vision sensor that, upon detecting a change in an intensity of incident light on each of the pixels, generates a second image signal asynchronously, an inertial sensor that acquires attitude information on the first image sensor and the second image sensor, a first computation processing device that recognizes a user on the basis of at least the second image signal and calculates coordinate information regarding the user on the basis of at least the second image signal, a second computation processing device that performs coordinate conversion on the coordinate information on the basis of the attitude information, and an image generation device that generates a display image which indicates a condition of the user, on the basis of the converted coordinate information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Miyada, Hideki Yanagisawa, Mamiko Ishida
  • Publication number: 20240123360
    Abstract: Provided is a cradle for supporting input devices having grips and tracked parts extending from the grips, the cradle including rear support parts that are capable of supporting rear parts of the grips, front support parts that are positioned forward away from the rear support parts and are capable of supporting front parts of the grips of the input devices, and, side support parts that are positioned outside in a left-right direction with respect to the rear support parts and the front support parts and are capable of supporting the tracked parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo KOBAYASHI, Takeshi IGARASHI, Masataka OTA, Nozomu UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240123351
    Abstract: An affective gaming system includes: an administrator unit configured to host a session of a video game; a receiving unit configured to receive biometric data associated with a first user of a plurality of users participating in the session of a video game; a first generating unit configured to generate, based on at least part of the biometric data, current emotion data associated with the first user; a second generating unit configured to generate, based at least in part on the current emotion data associated with the first user, target emotion data associated with the first user; and a modifying unit configured to modify, responsive to the difference between the target emotion data associated with the first user and the current emotion data associated with the first user, one or more aspects of the video game that are specific to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jesus Lucas Barcias, Lazaros Michailidis, Mandana Jenabzadeh, Mark Friend, Daniele Bernabei, Maria Chiara Monti
  • Publication number: 20240123352
    Abstract: An affective gaming system includes: an administrator unit configured to host a session of a video game; a receiving unit configured to receive biometric data associated with two or more users participating in the session of a video game; a first generating unit configured to generate, based on at least part of the biometric data, current emotion data associated with each of the two or more users; a selecting unit configured to select a first user based on at least part of the current emotion data; a second generating unit configured to generate, based at least in part on the current emotion data that is associated with a second user, target emotion data associated with the first user; and a modifying unit configured to modify, responsive to the difference between the target emotion data and the current emotion data that is associated with the first user, one or more aspects of the video game that are specific to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jesus Lucas Barcias, Lazaros Michailidis, Mandana Jenabzadeh, Mark Friend, Daniele Bernabei, Maria Chiara Monti
  • Publication number: 20240126053
    Abstract: A lens system provides to a user, a high-definition image in which generation of concentric circles is reduced. The lens system has one or more Fresnel lenses. A lens surface of each of the Fresnel lenses has a plurality of grooves that is concentrically formed. Both a pitch which is the distance between two adjacent grooves and the depth of each of the plurality of grooves vary with the distance from an optical axis that passes through the center of the lens system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Ishioka, Yasutoshi Katsuda, Shotaro Tada
  • Patent number: 11961159
    Abstract: A method for graphics processing. The method including rendering graphics for an application using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including dividing responsibility for the rendering geometry of the graphics between the plurality of GPUs based on a plurality of screen regions, each GPU having a corresponding division of the responsibility which is known to the plurality of GPUs. The method including generating information regarding a piece of geometry with respect to a first screen region for which a first GPU has a first division of responsibility, while rendering the piece of geometry at a second GPU for an image. The method including rendering the piece of geometry at the first GPU using the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Cerny, Florian Strauss, Tobias Berghoff
  • Patent number: 11957989
    Abstract: In a case where an actual object is moved by a user manipulation or by other means, physical phenomena associated with the object are addressed. A control system includes a mobile apparatus being an apparatus that moves on a sheet where images indicating coordinates are arranged and having a camera for photographing part of the sheet. The control system acquires the user manipulation, controls the mobile apparatus in such a manner as to travel according to the user manipulation (S106), detects a position of the mobile apparatus on the basis of an image photographed by the camera included in the mobile apparatus (S101), determines, on the basis of the position detection by position detection means, whether or not the mobile apparatus has moved in a manner estimated on the basis of the user manipulation (S102, S105), and performs a predetermined procedure (S103, S110, S111) in a case where it is determined that the mobile apparatus does not move in the estimated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Kotsugai
  • Patent number: 11960086
    Abstract: A distorted image generating section directly renders an image having a distortion such that a proper image can be seen when viewed through an eyepiece lens. Specifically, the distorted image generating section calculates which position a target pixel on a view screen will be displaced to by the lens, generates a ray of light that passes from a viewpoint through a pixel at a displacement destination, and uses color information obtained by ray tracing as a pixel value of the target pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Akio Ohba
  • Patent number: 11961450
    Abstract: In a display controller, a standard information acquisition unit acquires at least one of a luminance characteristic and a color gamut of a standard display panel. A luminance information storage unit of an output adjustment unit stores a measurement value of a luminance characteristic of a panel of a displaying destination. A luminance range adjustment unit gradually adjusts a luminance range for an image to be a luminance range same as that of the standard display panel. A color gamut information storage unit stores a measurement value of a color gamut of the panel of the displaying destination. A color adjustment unit adjusts a pixel value of an image on the basis of the color gamut such that the image is displayed in a color same as that on the standard display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 11962820
    Abstract: Provided are an image generation apparatus, an image generation method, and a program for generating an image indicative of play status of a game in which two-dimensional objects representative of information to be offered to a viewing audience at the destination of delivery are clearly expressed. An image acquisition section acquires a game image indicative of the content to be displayed on a display device, the game image representing at least the 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. The image acquisition section also acquires a delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery, the delivery target two-dimensional image having the same resolution as that of an image to be delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiyo Aoki, Kenichiro Yokota, Takeshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20240115934
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains information regarding the position of each fingertip of a user in a real space, and determines contact between a virtual object set within a virtual space and a finger of the user. The information processing device sets the virtual object in a partly deformed state such that a part of the virtual object, the part corresponding to the position of the finger determined to be in contact with the object among the fingers of the user, is located more to a far side from a user side than the finger, and displays the virtual object having the shape set thereto as an image in the virtual space on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshinori OHASHI