Patents Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
  • Patent number: 11915384
    Abstract: A technique iteratively fits a rasterization distortion function to a distortion property of a display such as a head-mounted display (HMD). The technique also features reconstructing a distortion function from a rendered image with unknown distortion property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Murakawa, Sagnik Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 11914146
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for integrating media cues into virtual reality scenes presented on a head mounted display (HMD) is disclosed. The method includes presenting a virtual reality scene on a display of an HMD. The method further includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors in a real-world space in which the HMD is located. Then, identifying an object location of an object in the real-world space that produces a sound. The method includes generating a media cue in the virtual reality scene presented in the HMD. The media cue is presented in a virtual location that is correlated to the object location of the object in the real-world space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria Dorn, Celeste Bean, Tatianna Manzon-Gutzman, Sarah Karp
  • Patent number: 11915685
    Abstract: Techniques are described for training neural networks on variable length datasets. The numeric representation of the length of each training sample is randomly perturbed to yield a pseudo-length, and the samples sorted by pseudo-length to achieve lower zero padding rate (ZPR) than completely randomized batching (thus saving computation time) yet higher randomness than strictly sorted batching (thus achieving better model performance than strictly sorted batching).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenhao Ge, Lakshmish Kaushik, Saket Kumar, Masanori Omote
  • Patent number: 11914147
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for generating an image by way of acquiring information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation of a camera. The image is generated for display on a display unit. A rate at which the image is generated is at a first frequency, which is lower than a second frequency corresponding to a frame rate of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Oto, Simon Mark Benson, Ian Henry Bickerstaff
  • Patent number: 11911704
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing real world assistance by a robot utility and interface device (RUID) are provided. A method provides for identifying a position of a user in a physical environment and a surface within the physical environment for projecting an interactive interface. The method also provides for moving to a location within the physical environment based on the position of the user and the surface for projecting the interactive interface. Moreover, the method provides for capturing a plurality of images of the interactive interface while the interactive interface is being interacted with by the use and for determining a selection of an input option made by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Fernandez Rico, Erik Beran, Michael Taylor, Ruxin Chen
  • Patent number: 11916743
    Abstract: Profile generation for bandwidth management is provided. A content provider receive a notification regarding a new application or media file. Profile information for the application or media file is determined. Such profile information includes information regarding consumption of bandwidth throughout a time period of usage of the application or media file. The profile may be stored in memory in association with the application or media file. A request is received from a user device regarding access to the application or media file. Access to the requested application or media is provided to the user device; the profile is also provided to the user device for use in evaluating whether bandwidth requirements of the application or media file exceeds an available network bandwidth of a network of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Gregory Corson
  • Publication number: 20240058692
    Abstract: An exterior member for an input device includes: a housing having an upper surface on which one or more operation members for manipulation by a user are arranged, and a middle portion located between right and left portions, respectively of the housing; a first sound hole extending from an exterior, through the exterior member, to an interior of the housing, the first sound hole allowing sound to propagate to a first location within the housing; a second sound hole extending from the exterior, through the exterior member, to the interior of the housing, the second sound hole allowing sound to propagate to a second location within the housing, wherein a position of the first sound hole and a position of the second sound hole are separated in at least one of the front-rear direction and an up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masaho Morita, Hiromasu Kaburaki
  • Patent number: 11906740
    Abstract: There is provided a display system used for a head mounted display including a head mounted device having a lens for guiding image light to an eye of a user and configured to be mounted on a head of the user and a portable terminal having an imaging unit for photographing a front of a display surface and capable of being housed in the head mounted device. The display system includes a display control section configured to display a moving image on the display surface, an image information obtaining section configured to obtain image information photographed by the imaging unit, and a position information obtaining section configured to obtain position information of an optical axis of the lens on the display surface on the basis of position information of at least two reference positions whose relative positions with respect to the optical axis are determined in advance, the at least two reference positions being included in the image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11904247
    Abstract: A content image display section displays a content image. A system image display section superimposes a system image on the content image and displays the images in response to a user operation. The system image display section is provided with a chat information display section for displaying information related to a voice chat. A member display section displays members of one voice chat room in which the user stays. A chat list display section displays a list of a plurality of voice chat rooms in which the user stays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Takuma Oiwa, Masashi Takeuchi, Hiroki Hirakawa, Steven Trombetta
  • Patent number: 11910110
    Abstract: A transfer control device includes a difference identifying section which identifies, for a first and second images sequentially captured by synchronous scanning, a difference region of the second image, on the basis of an event signal indicating a change in intensity of light generated in one or a plurality of pixels of each of the first and second images during a time period from capturing of the first image to capturing of the second image; and a transfer control section which executes data transfer different between the difference region and regions other than the difference region, for the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kurihara, Hiromasa Naganuma, Masakazu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11904233
    Abstract: In methods and apparatuses for reducing latency in graphics processing inputs are received and a first set of frames is generated and stored. Once all of the frames in the first set of frames have been produced, they may be delivered to a GPU thread. Each frame is then rendered by the GPU. Starting processing of frames after one or more of the frames have been stored increases a likelihood that the GPU thread will produce rendered frames without stalling. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob P. Stine, Victor Octav Suba Miura
  • Patent number: 11907129
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a host unit adapted to request data access by specifying a logical address of a secondary storage device, and a controller adapted to accept the data access request and convert the logical address into a physical address using an address conversion table to perform data access to an associated area of the secondary storage device, in which an address space defined by the address conversion table includes a coarsely granular address space that collectively associates, with logical addresses, physical addresses that are in units larger than those in which data is read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 11906322
    Abstract: Provided are an environment map management device, an environment map management system, an environment map management method, and a program that are capable of generating a common environment map that takes into consideration privacy of each of users simultaneously with securing a space covered by an environment map available to the each of users. A processing data transmitting section accesses an individual environment map available to a user of interest. The processing data transmitting section accesses a common environment map available to a plurality of users including the user of interest. A SLAM processing execution section adds, to the individual environment map, environment information generated on the basis of sensing data acquired by a tracker used by the user of interest. A transmitting control section controls whether or not to add the environment information to the common environment map, according to a privacy attribute corresponding to the environment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11910095
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a captured image acquiring section acquires data of an image captured of a reference object while part of incident light applied thereto is being blocked. An incident light information acquiring section acquires, according to a predetermined model equation, a brightness distribution of partial incident light in each of light-blocked states on the basis of the image of the reference object, and acquires a brightness distribution of overall incident light by calculating brightness distributions of partial incident light. A target information acquiring section acquires the shape and material of a target by using the brightness distribution of overall incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ishida, Shinya Wada
  • Patent number: 11908051
    Abstract: A system for generating image content, the system comprising an image region identification unit operable to identify one or more regions of an image to be displayed as low-detail regions, an image processing unit operable to perform processing to reduce colour differences for each of one or more areas within one or more of the identified regions, and an image output unit operable to output one or more processed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Rosario Leonardi, Michael Eder
  • Patent number: 11908066
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel of a virtual scene at a viewpoint includes: downloading a machine learning system corresponding to a current or anticipated state an application determining the virtual scene to be rendered from among a plurality of machine learning systems corresponding to a plurality of states of the application; providing a position and a direction based on the viewpoint to the machine learning system previously trained to predict a factor; combining the predicted factor from the machine learning system with a distribution function that characterises an interaction of light with a predetermined surface to generate the pixel value corresponding to an illuminated first element of the virtual scene at the position; and incorporating the pixel value into a rendered image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Marina Villanueva Barreiro, Andrew James Bigos, Gilles Christian Rainer, Fabio Cappello, Timothy Edward Bradley
  • Publication number: 20240053604
    Abstract: A control device generates a first image in which, together with an object in the real world appearing in an image captured by a camera of a robot, a virtual object appears and which presents an exterior appearance of the virtual object while the position of the camera of the robot is set as a view-point. An HMD displays the first image generated by the control device. In a case in which the position of the HMD in the height direction changes, the control device generates a second image from which the object in the real world is deleted and which presents the exterior appearance of the virtual object viewed from a new view-point according to the change in the position of the HMD in the height direction. The HMD displays the second image in place of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Yukari KONISHI, Fumihiko IIDA, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Kotaro IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240051147
    Abstract: An entertainment system includes a user terminal, a robot, and a control device. The user terminal causes a display unit to display contents which allow a user to select any one character from a plurality of characters for which personalities different from one another are defined. The control device determines an operation mode of the robot on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a personality of the character selected on the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Fumihiko IIDA, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Yukari KONISHI, Kotaro IMAMURA, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Naoki OGISHITA, Bhat Ramanath UDUPI, Mari YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20240057272
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a main body in which a display is built; a wearing band extending from the main body to a rear side and having a shape enclosing a head of a user as a whole; a right-side extending section configured to make up a right-side part of the wearing band; a left-side extending section configured to make up a left-side part of the wearing band; a movable section configured to make up a part of a rear side of the wearing band, link a rear section of the right-side extending section with a rear section of the left-side extending section, and be movable relative to the right-side extending section and the left-side extending section in a retracting direction in which the length of the wearing band is decreased and in an extending direction in which the length of the wearing band is increased, a first manipulating member operable by a user and rotatably provided on the movable section with an axis section that extends in a front-rear direction; where a vertical width of the first manipula
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takamasa Araki, Fumihiko Sato, Takayuki Tateno
  • Patent number: 11899930
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce deterioration in responsiveness to storage of content in a flash memory. A storage management apparatus according to the present invention includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks each having a reserved area and a normal area, acquires a new dataset when a writable area included in a normal area of the plurality of blocks is larger than the new dataset and the new dataset is smaller in size than the writable area included in the normal area of the plurality of blocks in a case where unnecessary datasets included in the plurality of blocks are deleted, copies non-unnecessary datasets from the normal area of a specific block including the unnecessary datasets to the normal area of another block, deletes all datasets included in the normal area of the specific block, and stores the new dataset in the normal area of the specific block from which all the datasets are deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Keiichi Aoki, Masaki Takahashi