Patents by Inventor Ronald Jonas Festejo
Ronald Jonas Festejo 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).
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Patent number: 8951123Abstract: An entertainment device comprises a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment, that on-line virtual environment being able to host interactions between a user of the entertainment device and other users of one or more remote entertainment devices, a network communications arrangement operable to receive data representative of the actions of the other users within the on-line virtual environment and to receive data indicative of any supplementary data files interoperable with the on-line virtual environment that are associated with one or more remote entertainment devices of one or more of the other users, a data file searcher operable to search the entertainment device for any supplementary data files indicated by the received data, a data file acquisition arrangement operable to acquire, from a networked device, a copy of a supplementary data file indicated by the received data that was not found on the entertainment device, and a data file integratType: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Scott Christopher Waugaman, Ronald Jonas Festejo, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Mark Anderson, Mark Graham Swinhoe
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Patent number: 8771083Abstract: An entertainment device comprises a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment comprising one or more avatars corresponding to users of one or more remote entertainment devices each interacting with that online virtual environment, a network communicator operable to receive data representative of the actions of other users within the on-line virtual environment and to receive content sourced from one or more users of the one or more remote entertainment devices interacting with that online virtual environment, an input device operable by the user to instigate a reporting event and a content identifier operable to generate information indicative of content sourced from one or more users of the one or more remote entertainment devices and that was available to the entertainment device when the reporting event was instigated, and in which the network communicator is operable to transmit a report to a remote device comprising said generated information.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Mark Andrew Horneff, Mark John Judge, Ronald Jonas Festejo, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Stephen Peter Routledge
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Publication number: 20120115597Abstract: An entertainment device comprises a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment, that on-line virtual environment being able to host interactions between a user of the entertainment device and other users of one or more remote entertainment devices, a network communications arrangement operable to receive data representative of the actions of the other users within the on-line virtual environment and to receive data indicative of any supplementary data files interoperable with the on-line virtual environment that are associated with one or more remote entertainment devices of one or more of the other users, a data file searcher operable to search the entertainment device for any supplementary data files indicated by the received data, a data file acquisition arrangement operable to acquire, from a networked device, a copy of a supplementary data file indicated by the received data that was not found on the entertainment device, and a data file integratType: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Scott Christopher Waugaman, Ronald Jonas Festejo, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Mark Anderson, Mark Graham Swinhoe
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Patent number: 8035613Abstract: Data processing apparatus arranged to receive successive images from a video camera comprises means for detecting the average image luminance of images received from the video camera; means for detecting whether the average image luminance is lower than a threshold luminance value; and means for initiating a control function of the data processing apparatus in response to detection of an average image luminance which is lower than the threshold luminance value over at least a threshold number of successive images.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.Inventors: Ronald Jonas Festejo, Peter Marshall
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Publication number: 20100105484Abstract: An entertainment device comprises a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment comprising one or more avatars corresponding to users of one or more remote entertainment devices each interacting with that online virtual environment, a network communicator operable to receive data representative of the actions of other users within the on-line virtual environment and to receive content sourced from one or more users of the one or more remote entertainment devices interacting with that online virtual environment, an input device operable by the user to instigate a reporting event and a content identifier operable to generate information indicative of content sourced from one or more users of the one or more remote entertainment devices and that was available to the entertainment device when the reporting event was instigated, and in which the network communicator is operable to transmit a report to a remote device comprising said generated information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE LIMITEDInventors: Mark Andrew Horneff, Mark John Judge, Ronald Jonas Festejo, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Stephen Peter Routladge
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Patent number: 7586502Abstract: Data processing apparatus arranged to receive successive images from a video camera comprises means for detecting inter-image motion in an image region associated with a control function of the data processing apparatus; and means for initiating the control function if inter-image motion is detected in the image region in respect of at least a threshold number of the images within a test group of the images.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2005Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.Inventors: Ronald Jonas Festejo, Peter John Marshall