Patents Assigned to Interaction
  • Patent number: 12142002
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a relation learning section that learns the relation between a first image of an object having a plurality of joints and coordinate information which indicates positions of the plurality of joints and which is defined in a range expanded to be larger than the angle of view of the first image, thereby constructing a trained model for estimating coordinate information of at least one joint located outside the angle of view of a newly-acquired second image of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Miyada, Masayoshi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12141344
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing augment reality overlay associated with a real-world object includes detecting a gaze target of a user viewing the real-world environment using a pair of AR glasses by tracking a gaze of the user. Position parameters affecting the gaze of the user are tracked and one or more attributes of the gaze target are selectively corrected to allow the user to maintain their gaze on the gaze target. An AR trigger element associated with the gaze target is triggered in response to the gaze of the user. The AR trigger element provides additional information related to the gaze target selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Warren Benedetto
  • Patent number: 12138774
    Abstract: A robot includes heat-generating members such as an actuator in spaces surrounded by exterior members. A heat-transfer section transfers heat of the heat-generating members to the exterior members. A heat-transfer control section adjusts the amount of heat transfer between the heat-generating members and the exterior members by operating the heat-transfer section. The heat-transfer section has a thermally conductive member that can shift between a coupling position for thermally coupling the heat-generating members and the exterior members, and an interrupting position for interrupting thermal conduction between the heat-generating members and the exterior members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Miyazaki, Kissei Matsumoto, Hajime Inoue
  • Patent number: 12138533
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to acquire sound data, acquire, as teacher vibration data, vibration data that is created on the basis of the sound data and that is used to cause a vibration device to vibrate, and execute machine learning by using the sound data and the teacher vibration data, to generate learned model data that is used to convert an input sound waveform into an output vibration waveform. The information processing apparatus executes the machine learning by using a value obtained by analysis of a frequency spectrum of the sound data as an input feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yukari Konishi
  • Patent number: 12141905
    Abstract: A content generation system operable to generate one or more actions to be performed by an agent, the system comprising an input receiving unit operable to receive two or more actions for the agent, a model generation unit operable to input the actions to a machine learning model so as to generate a trained machine learning model, and an action generation unit operable to generate an action to be performed by the agent, wherein the generation comprises the selection of a latent space interpolation state associated with the trained machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Calum Armstrong, Nicholas Anthony Edward Ryan, Marina Villanueva-Barreiro, Mark Anthony
  • Patent number: 12141910
    Abstract: A method of generating a training set for a neural precomputed light model includes: generating a plurality of candidate viewpoints of a scene, culling candidate viewpoints according to a probability that depends upon a response of the surface of the scene to light at a surface position in the scene corresponding to the viewpoint, and generating training images at the remaining viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James Bigos, Gilles Christian Rainer, Cristian Craciun
  • Patent number: 12142283
    Abstract: Audio communication apparatus comprises a set of two or more audio communication nodes; each audio communication node comprising: an audio encoder controlled by encoding parameters to generate encoded audio data to represent a vocal input generated by a user of that audio communication node, the encoded data being agnostic to which user who generated the vocal input; and an audio decoder controlled by decoding parameters to generate a decoded audio signal as a reproduction of a vocal signal generated by a user of another of the audio communication nodes, the decoding parameters being specific to the user of that other of the audio communication nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Oliver Hume, Marina Villanueva Barreiro
  • Patent number: 12138534
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: executing a session of the cloud video game; establishing, over a network, a connection between a streaming server and a remote client, the connection being established in accordance with a WebRTC protocol; transmitting gameplay video generated from the executing session, encoded in a compressed format, and wherein the gameplay video is presented on a display by the client, wherein the streaming server is configured to receive input data from the client over a data channel established using an RTCDataChannel API; wherein executing the session of the cloud video game includes applying the input data to the session of the cloud video game, to drive real-time gameplay of the session of the cloud video game through the client; wherein the streaming server monitors a condition of the connection and adjusts the encoding of the gameplay video based on the condition of the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventor: David Posin
  • Patent number: 12141339
    Abstract: In an image generation apparatus, a viewpoint information acquisition section acquires information regarding a viewpoint of a user wearing a head-mounted display. A real space information acquisition section acquires information regarding a real space where the user and an information provider are present. A viewpoint control section moves the viewpoint in display from a user's viewpoint to another person's viewpoint including an object present in the real space in a field of view. An image generation section generates an image relative to the determined viewpoint and outputs the image from an output section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Junichi Muramoto
  • Patent number: 12138531
    Abstract: Provided is an inputting device including an operation button that is pressed in a first direction, a switch that is located in the first direction with respect to the operation button and is pushed by the operation button, a circuit board including a conductor pad located on an outside with respect to an external shape of the operation button when the operation button is viewed in the first direction, and a detection conductor provided on the operation button, in which the detection conductor includes a movable portion attached to the operation button, an elastic portion extending from the movable portion in a direction intersecting with the first direction, and a fixation portion connected to the elastic portion and attached to the conductor pad, and movement of the movable portion in the first direction is permitted by elastic deformation of the elastic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Okuyama, Masaaki Tonogai, Kiyotaka Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 12142295
    Abstract: There is provided an optical disc drive that can guide the center of an optical disc to the position of a spindle motor, while allowing the number of components to be reduced. A base frame includes a stopper portion that comes into contact with an outer edge of the optical disc having reached the position of a spindle motor and that restricts backward movement of the optical disc. A switch arm includes a contact portion located on a side opposite to the stopper portion across the optical disc having reached the position of the spindle motor, and the switch arm uses the contact portion to push the optical disc toward the stopper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Sakamoto, Kazuto Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12143595
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a transmission method, a reception method, and a program by which whether or not a GDR technology is to be used can be suitably controlled according to a situation are provided. An acquisition unit sequentially acquires a frame image drawn in a frame buffer. A GDR usage determination unit determines, on the basis of the frame image or a communication situation, whether or not the GDR is to be used. An encode processing unit encodes, according to the determination as to whether or not the GDR is to be used, the frame image into any one of an ordinary I-frame and data including an I-slice in the GDR. A transmission unit transmits the I-frame or the data including an I-slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 12142000
    Abstract: A system and method for positioning a viewing device relative to a display, the display by leveraging the capability of a user device, such as a smartphone. An image of the display is captured using a camera and a positioning UI is superimposed over the image to indicate positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph McCraw, Francis Bato
  • Patent number: 12138542
    Abstract: A method of controlling at least a first non-player object within a virtual environment of an application includes: selecting a template non-player object behavioural AI model, the AI model being previously trained separately to the application using reinforcement learning to characterise behaviour of a respective non-player object type, from among a plurality of template AI models, associating one or more non-player objects of the application with the selected template AI model, and for the or each associated non-player object, inputting application state information to an input interface of the template AI model for receiving state information relevant to the associated non-player object's type, and receiving from an output interface of the template AI model non-player object state information, and then updating the state of the respective non-player object for the virtual environment of the application responsive to the received non-player object state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Moss, Timothy Bradley, Maria Chiara Monti
  • Patent number: 12144133
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takamasa Araki, Fumihiko Sato, Takayuki Tateno
  • Patent number: 12138530
    Abstract: Data processing apparatus comprises a control device having one or more user-operable controls; a pressure detector to detect user pressure applied while operating the one or more user-operable controls; and a processor to initiate a data processing action in response to a detection of user pressure of at least a threshold amount greater than that required to operate the one or more user controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Goldman
  • Patent number: 12138529
    Abstract: There are provided a controller apparatus and a control method thereof. The controller apparatus is held by a hand of a user and includes a microphone, a tactile sensation presentation device that presents a tactile sensation to the hand of the user, and a speaker. In addition, during a period in which the user inputs sound from the microphone, the controller apparatus reduces emission of sound of the speaker and causes the tactile sensation presentation device to perform control of tactile sensation presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Doucet, Hideyuki Uchida, Naoyuki Saito, Tomohito Ito, Eric Bailey, Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 12138538
    Abstract: A message generation unit generates a notification message. A setting unit registers setting information determining whether or not a camera image is to be included in a distribution image. A distribution processing unit distributes a distribution image. When the camera image is set to be included in the distribution image, an image processing unit generates the distribution image including a region in which the notification message is superimposed. When the camera image is set not to be included in the distribution image, the image processing unit generates the distribution image not including the region in which the notification message is superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fujihara
  • Patent number: 12138550
    Abstract: A method for processing a self-coaching interface is described. The method includes identifying a gameplay event during gameplay by a user. The gameplay event is tagged as falling below a skill threshold. The method further includes generating a recording for a window of time for the gameplay event and processing game telemetry for the recording of the gameplay event. The game telemetry is used to identify a progression of interactive actions before the gameplay event for the window of time. The method includes generating overlay content in the self-coaching interface. The overlay content is applied to one or more image frames of the recording when viewed via the self-coaching interface. The overlay content appears in the one or more image frames during a playback of the recording. The overlay content provides hints for increasing a skill of the user to be above the skill threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Josh Eads
  • Patent number: 12141848
    Abstract: A non-fungible token (NFT) representing a computer game asset can be purchased for a limited time by a gamer or a spectator and in some cases extended up to a maximum period, after which time the NFT is placed back on the market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Benedetto, Steven Trombetta