Patents by Inventor Richard Eliot Bates

Richard Eliot Bates has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8782418
    Abstract: An entertainment device comprises communication means operable to receive media data from a media data source, storage means operable to store the received media data, in which the storage means limits the duration of access to the media data which was received from the media data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Emmanuel James Poitier, Richard Eliot Bates
  • Patent number: 8634759
    Abstract: Game processing apparatus comprises means for indicating successive target actions to be executed by a user, each target action having an associated target time of execution; and scoring logic in which detected user actions are compared with the target actions, the storing logic comprising: an input arrangement by which user actions may be detected; means for comparing a detected sequence of user actions with a sequence of target actions; and means for detecting a timing offset between the sequence of user actions and a corresponding sequence of target actions; in which the comparison of subsequent user actions with respective target actions is arranged to apply the timing offset as a relative displacement between the detected user actions and the target times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Richard Eliot Bates, Paulina Bozek
  • Publication number: 20100146283
    Abstract: An entertainment device comprises communication means operable to receive media data from a media data source, storage means operable to store the received media data, in which the storage means limits the duration of access to the media data which was received from the media data source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE LIMITED
    Inventors: Emmanuel James Poitier, Richard Eliot Bates