Patents Assigned to Interaction
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Patent number: 12154208Abstract: A method for generating a graphic display of frame images comprises collecting one or more graphic objects to be rendered into a frame image, the one or more graphic objects being represented as a mesh in object space; determining one or more shadels to be computed for the frame image based at least on the one or more input attributes for each of the one or more graphic objects, each shadel being a shaded portion of the mesh; allocating space in a shadel storage buffer for the one or more shadels; populating a work queue buffer, the work queue buffer containing a list of commands to be executed to compute each of the one or more shadels; computing the determined one or more shadels to generate a shaded mesh; and rasterizing the shaded mesh into the frame image. The method can be implemented using a graphics processing unit (GPU).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Oxide Interactive, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Kurt Baker, Timothy James Kipp, Nathan Heazlett, Gregory Osefo
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Patent number: 12153854Abstract: A method for communicating with users in a virtual reality space includes capturing images of a user during a session of interaction in the virtual reality space, with the captured images including hand gestures and facial expressions made by the user during a communication act. The method also includes processing state data generated during the session, to identify a context associated with the virtual reality space during the communication act. The method further includes generating an audio output representing an interpretation of the hand gestures and facial expressions. The audio output includes sound modifications that are dynamically applied based on the context of virtual reality space. Still further, the method includes presenting the audio output in the virtual reality space via an avatar of the user. The face of the avatar is correspondingly modified with a video overlay associated with the sound modifications, which update during the communication act.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Jorge Arroyo Palacios
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Patent number: 12154552Abstract: A natural language understanding (NLU) system generates in-place annotations for natural language utterances or other types of time-based media based on stand-off annotations. The in-place annotations are associated with particular sub-sequences of an annotation, which provides richer information than stand-off annotations, which are associated only with an utterance as a whole. To generate the in-place annotations for an utterance, the NLU system applies an encoder network and a decoder network to obtain attention weights for the various tokens within the utterance. The NLU system disqualifies tokens of the utterance based on their corresponding attention weights, and selects highest-scoring contiguous sequences of tokens between the disqualified tokens. In-place annotations are associated with the selected sequences.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Interactions LLCInventors: Brian David Lester, Srinivas Bangalore
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Patent number: 12151157Abstract: Disclosed herein is an input device including a first microphone, an exterior member that accommodates the first microphone, and a first sound hole penetrating the exterior member to be connected to the first microphone. An exterior surface of the exterior member has one or a plurality of wall portions that surround the first sound hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaho Morita, Takeshi Igarashi
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Publication number: 20240388750Abstract: An apparatus includes communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The communication circuitry is configured to receive, from a requesting device, a stream-recommendation request associated with a player profile, and the processing circuitry responsive to the stream-recommendation request to select, from a list of available game streams, one or more available game streams. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a stream recommendation indicating the selected one or more available game streams. The processing circuitry is configured to select the one or more available game streams in dependence on the player profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Daniel Israel Pereira Jimenez, Daniel Goldman
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Publication number: 20240382833Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus connected with an operation apparatus including multiple buttons. The information processing apparatus includes a screen display section that causes an edit screen to be displayed in an edit mode, the edit screen allowing a freely-selected button of the operation apparatus to be set to a special mode in which an input state of the button continues. On a screen after termination of the edit mode, the screen display section causes information regarding the continuation of the input state of the button set to the special mode to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Alvin Julian DANIEL, Yuka MIZUTA, Makoto NISHIDA, Shoi YONETOMI, Yurika KONDO
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Publication number: 20240386501Abstract: A method implemented by a computing entity includes hashing a transaction record of a secure first token on an object distributed ledger to establish control over the secure first token representing a first product component of a plurality of product components that are each required for manufacturing of a product. The method further includes obtaining a copy of the object distributed ledger and hashing an updated first set of smart contracts utilizing a receiving public key to produce a next transaction hash value. The method further includes encrypting the next transaction hash value utilizing a private key of the computing entity to produce a next transaction signature and generating an updated secure first token for the object distributed ledger to include the updated first set of smart contracts. The method further includes causing inclusion of the updated secure first token in the object distributed ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: ImageWorks InteractiveInventors: Thomas W. Becker, Gary W. Grube
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Publication number: 20240382842Abstract: A video game peripheral device includes an electromagnet and circuitry, the circuitry being configured to: receive data from a data processing apparatus executing a video game application; based on the received data, control an electric current supplied to the electromagnet to control a magnetic interaction between the electromagnet and a magnetic material of a second video game peripheral device wearable or holdable by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Maria Chiara Monti, Daniel Israel Pereira Jimenez, Navin Kamath, Jesus Lucas Barcias, Michael Eder, David Erwan Damien Uberti, Mandana Jenabzadeh, Pierluigi Vito Amadori
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Publication number: 20240385680Abstract: Two light-emitting units are to be prevented from overlapping each other in an image obtained through a camera. A tracked unit (30) has a first outer surface (A1) provided with a first light-emitting unit (H1), a second outer surface (A2) provided with a second light-emitting unit (H2), and a light shield portion (B). The second outer surface (A2) faces a second direction different from that of the first outer surface (A1). The light shield portion (B) is located further outside than the first light-emitting unit (H1) and the second light-emitting unit (H2).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takanori Minamino, Kenzo Nishikawa, Takeshi Igarashi, Yoshiaki Kawamura
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Publication number: 20240382839Abstract: A signal from a vibration motor is more easily transmitted to a hand of a user. A grip includes a grip main body, a grip movable portion constituting a right side surface of the grip, and a vibration motor attached to the grip movable portion. A relative position between the grip main body and the grip movable portion is changeable in a lateral direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Katsuhisa TADANO, Isao OKUYAMA, Takeshi IGARASHI
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Publication number: 20240388428Abstract: Decentralized blockchain enabled mobile communications on a secure, open and distributed network and that is network agnostic. Networks of future will be based on cellular, Wi-Fi, and/or satellite technology, may be private or public, will be decentralized and will provide a variable network capacity, latency and bandwidth. The endpoints for networks will vary but increasingly include several Internet-Of-Things (IOT) endpoints. Peer-to-peer connections traverse many of these networks. As of today, communications networks will continue to exist in secure and not secure embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Movius Interactive CorporationInventors: Amit Modi, Philip Lowman
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Publication number: 20240386666Abstract: There is provided a method of guiding a user within a virtual environment in a current session. The method includes receiving data relating to user interactions with the virtual environment of a plurality of other users in a plurality of previous sessions, where a predetermined event occurred in user interactions of each of the other users; determining a representative user position, in the virtual environment, of the other users during the previous sessions; and generating a visual indicator, within the virtual environment in the current session, of the representative user position to guide the user within the virtual environment in the current session.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Paul Terence Mulligan, Mark Anthony, Jun Yen Leung, Richard Carter
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Publication number: 20240382829Abstract: An information processing system includes a controller apparatus that is operated by a user in a contact manner and an information processing apparatus that is connected with the controller apparatus. The controller apparatus works in an operation state of either a first state of receiving a user operation and transmitting information regarding the received operation to the information processing apparatus or a second state of executing a predetermined process based on the user contact state, the first state being different from the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kiyotaka ISHIKAWA, Shin KIMURA, Masaaki TONOGAI, Takuro SAWADA, Kazuyoshi ENOMOTO
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Publication number: 20240382834Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus connected with an operation apparatus including a first operation member whose input operation by a user is detected as information on a two-dimensional plane and a second operation member different from the first operation member. The information processing apparatus includes a determining section that determines a positional relation between the first operation member and the second operation member according to input operation on the operation apparatus in a predetermined mode, and a setting information registering section that causes the operation apparatus to store setting information including information regarding the positional relation between the first operation member and the second operation member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Alvin Julian DANIEL, Yuka MIZUTA, Makoto NISHIDA, Shoi YONETOMI, Yurika KONDO
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Publication number: 20240388868Abstract: A computer-implemented method for decorrelating a set of simulated audio signals in a virtual environment is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a first set of decorrelation filters; evaluating the first set of decorrelation filters to determine a similarity metric representing the similarity between the first set of decorrelation filters; if the similarity metric is above a predetermined threshold, regenerating the set of decorrelation filters so as to reduce the similarity metric; and applying the regenerated set of decorrelation filters to the simulated audio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.Inventors: Michael Lee Jones, Christopher Buchanan, Danjeli Schembri, Louis-Xavier Buffoni, Allen Lee
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Patent number: 12145057Abstract: Using a camera or other tracking hardware, the attention of a player of a computer game (based on gaze direction, for instance) is tracked at key/predetermined points during game play. For example, when the player enters a new area in the game such as a simulated room, town, etc., it is determined what the player's gaze focuses on more, e.g., a dog huddled in the corner, a nobleman with obvious signs of wealth, or a shifty appearing figure in the shadows. Based on this input, one or more factors of future gameplay are determined, such as an order in which to present encounters/challenges, adjusting a character's “morality” score/flag, adjusting bonuses/penalties to non-player character (NPC) interactions, etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventor: Paul Timm
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Patent number: 12149770Abstract: A sharing processing section uploads a content image recorded in an image recording device to a distribution server. A display processing section displays a display element indicative of the updated content image. The sharing processing section acquires past distribution record data regarding the uploaded content image. The display processing section displays information regarding past distribution records in association with the display element indicative of the uploaded content image.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kiyobumi Matsunaga, Masaki Takase, Masahiro Fujihara
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Patent number: 12145055Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for processing video games streamed from a cloud gaming system over a network. The method includes receiving an indication of selection of the video game, for a gaming session, through a user interface associated with a streaming device that is connected to a display screen via a pass-through device. The method includes receiving a signal that the gaming session is active, from a game streaming logic of the pass-through device. In one embodiment, the game streaming logic is configured to receive a compressed stream of the video game, decode the compressed stream of the video game, and provide image data for rendering by the display screen, and receiving user input by the game streaming logic for driving interactivity of the video game while said cloud gaming system executes said video game.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Warren M. Benedetto
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Patent number: 12145056Abstract: A method is disclosed for requesting data in a cloud gaming system that includes a cloud storage system and a cloud compute system, each of which has a respective peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) interface and a respective computer memory. The cloud gaming system includes a PCIe switch connected to both the PCIe interface of the cloud storage system and the PCIe interface of the cloud compute system. The PCIe switch exposes a doorbell register that is monitored by the cloud storage system. The cloud compute system writes to the doorbell register, which causes an interrupt to fire on the cloud storage system. The cloud storage system handles the interrupt, which directs the cloud storage system to read a message from a specified computer memory location. The message directs the cloud storage system to read requested data from a storage device accessible by the cloud storage system.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventor: Roelof Roderick Colenbrander
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Patent number: 12148445Abstract: Systems and methods for emotion detection and emotion-based moderation based on voice inputs are provided. A user emotion profile may be stored in memory for a user. The user emotion profile may include one or more moderation rules that specifies a moderation action responsive to one or more emotional states. A current communication session associated with the user and one or more other users may be monitored based on the user emotion profile. An emotional state detected as being associated with a subset of the messages may trigger at least one of the moderation rules by corresponding to at least one of the emotional states specified by the user emotion profile. A presentation of at least one of the messages in the subset being provided to the user device may be modified in accordance with the moderation action specified by the user emotion profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Victoria Dorn, Celeste Bean, Olga Rudi, Courtney Yingling, Hsin-Yi Chien