Abstract: Provided is a molded pulp cushioning material that allows at least a part of an accommodation target object having a first outer surface, two second outer surfaces, and two third outer surfaces to fit in a first direction and that includes a first wall and a second wall. First support protruding portions protruding in the first direction are formed on the first wall. Second support protruding portions are formed on the second wall. The first support protruding portions are lined up in the second direction and in the third direction. The second support protruding portions are lined up in the third direction. A distance between the two first support protruding portions adjacent to each other in the second direction and a distance between the two first support protruding portions adjacent to each other in the third direction are smaller than a distance between the two adjacent second support protruding portions.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method of providing a personalized experience to players of applications delivering a virtual environment, such as a virtual game world. A cloud-deployed machine learning (ML) model implements a player state service to gather data from input devices and historical data, such as past game-play, to infer physiological and behavioral data (a player state vector) which may be used to represent the current cognitive state of the player.

Abstract: A display apparatus body includes a first polarization plate, a first wave plate, a reflection layer, a second wave plate, and a second polarization plate. The reflection layer includes reflection regions that correspond to positions of non-light emission regions of the display element and that reflect light and includes light transmission regions that correspond to positions of a plurality of light emission regions and that transmit light. This can obtain a display apparatus that can improve the use efficiency of light emitted from a display element.

Abstract: A microphone can be provided on a charging case for wireless earbuds. This can be used for quality recording and microphone placement, as well as assisting in echo cancellation algorithms by measuring environmental noise. The microphone can be movably mounted to adjust for noise or echo cancelation on another device such as a cell phone.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an apparatus main body having a first external surface that faces a first direction and a first side surface that faces a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a first exterior panel curved at least partly, in which the first exterior panel covers the first external surface and is attached to the first external surface, and the first exterior panel has, at an end portion of the first exterior panel, a first projecting portion beyond a position of the first side surface.

Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a computer implemented method for partner pixelling for user identification. The method includes sending a unique identifier request message to an identity broker when a user is on an advertiser webpage. The method includes receiving a unique identifier of the user from the identifier entity broker; and sending a rule file to a publisher server, wherein the rule file comprises the unique identifier of the user for which at least one DSP is interested in displaying an advertisement. Further, when the user visits the publisher website, the publisher server uses the unique identifier, revived from the identity broker, to identify the user and the list of DSPs that are interested in displaying advisement to the user.

Abstract: A system, method, and graphical user interface for playing games and/or executing applications on a tablet-based client. One embodiment of a graphical user interface (GUI) for playing a video game on a tablet-based client device comprises: a virtual controller rendered on a display of the tablet computer, the virtual controller substantially mimicking the control provided by a thumb stick of a physical game controller and providing omnidirectional, free-form movement in a synchronous direction in which a user moves a finger on the display of the tablet-based client.

Abstract: Systems and methods for hindering play of an adult video game by a child and for protecting the child are described. One of the methods includes receiving an indication of access to the adult video game via an adult user account, determining whether a user accessing the adult video game is the child after receiving the indication of the access to the adult video game, and hindering the child from playing the adult video game upon determining that the user accessing the adult video game is the child.

Abstract: A mobile application and a method are described for servicing a second line service (“SLS”) based communication request originating from a subscriber's telecommunications device (“TD”) even if the call signal does not include sufficient information to identify the phone number from which the subscriber initiated the call. The method involves associating the SLS phone number of the subscriber, the primary number of the subscriber and the primary number of a third party via a special relationship number.

Abstract: A method is provided, including: executing a first session of a video game by a cloud gaming system, wherein executing the first session generates a first game state of the video game for gameplay of the video game by a first user; streaming the gameplay of the video game over a network to enable the gameplay of the video game by the first user; receiving, during said gameplay, a command to share an interactive playable portion of the gameplay of the video game by the first user; responsive to the command, providing to a second user access to the interactive playable portion of the video game, through execution of a second session of the video game that generates a second game state of the video game for gameplay of the interactive playable portion by the second user.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for executing an application program to control a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game in order to manipulate the execution of the application program and to affect the game; setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game during gameplay of the game player, which viewpoints are offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player; and deleting the at least one of the plurality of viewpoints to be the one of the respective positions of the one of the one or more objects when the one of the one or more objects disappears from view due to the gameplay of the game player.

Abstract: Pulsed light emitted from a light emitter of a TOF sensor at an intensity is divided into light that is reflected by an object having transmissivity and reaches a light receiver at an intensity and light that passes through the object and reaches an object at an intensity. The latter is reflected by the object at an intensity, partly passing through the object to reach the light receiver at an intensity. A local maximum point is detected in a change in a degree of photons observed by the light receiver, to acquire both distances to the object and the object.

Abstract: Device and process configurations are provided for game controllers. A game controller can include an input control sensor having an input surface and at least one optical sensor to detect input to the input surface. The game controller can also include a controller coupled to the input control sensor to receive game controller input, identify at least one input command, and output a control signal. Input control sensors allow for input based on one or more of touch, tap, swipe, press, pinch and joystick inputs to one or more surfaces of the controller. Input can include a pretouch relative to the input surface, the pretouch including input approaching the input surface and input prior to engagement with a surface. A game controller can present at least one reference point for an input control including illumination and use of a touch screen to detect one or more of heat and pressure.

Abstract: The conspicuity of a light emitting surface provided along an outer edge of an input member is enhanced. An input device (10) includes an upper cabinet section (41) having an opening formed therein, an input member (20) that has an upper surface to be touched by a user with a finger and that is disposed inside the opening, and a light diffusing member (71) having a light emitting surface (E2) located along an outer edge of the input member (20). The light emitting surface (E2) has a first region (71g) exposed in a gap between an inner edge of the opening of the upper cabinet section (41) and an outer edge of the input member (20) and a second region (71h) positioned on an inner side of the outer edge of the input member (20) and below a peripheral portion (21a) of the input member (20).

Abstract: To protect a user's privacy by reducing a malicious developer's ability to eavesdrop on unwitting HMD users by converting signals from a motion sensor in the HMD to speech or speaker recognition, a microphone can record ambient sound and voice which is subtracted from the motion sensor data before the sensor data is made available to the game developer. Additionally, ANC (active noise cancellation) techniques can be adapted to cancel noise from a motion sensor's data. In another technique, a band pass filter subtracts frequency in the sensor signals within the voice range. Still a third technique blends statistical noise into the motion sensor signal before passing to game developers to obfuscate the user's speech.

Abstract: Technology is described for surfacing in-game durational information to a player by way of a durational information platform. In a method embodiment, an operation processes a game data of a player for determining a game course the player is to take between a current state and a subsequent state within the game. The method also includes an operation for identifying a plurality of sequential segments within the game course for completion by the player and an operation for processing game telemetry of the player for determining effectiveness metrics of the player. The method further includes operations for calculating an estimated time for completion of the game course and for generating a recommendation for communication to a device of the player including the estimated time for completion.

Abstract: A method for gaming. The method includes assigning a default game play profile to a user, wherein the default game play profile includes a default game play style that simulates human game play, and wherein the default game play profile is configured to control game play for the user based on the default game play style. The method includes monitoring a plurality of game plays of the user playing a plurality of gaming applications. The method includes generating a user game play profile of the user by adjusting the default game play style based on the plurality of game plays, wherein the user game play profile incudes a user game play style customized to the user. The method includes controlling an instance of a first gaming application based on the user game play style of the user game play profile.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating datasets for training machine learning models includes: a receiving unit configured to receive video data comprising sequential image frames; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of the sequential image frames; and a selecting unit configured to select, for a target image frame, a subset of stored image frames, the subset providing contextual data relating to the target image frame for the machine learning model. The selecting unit is configured to successively generate sampling values, wherein a difference between successive sampling values increases with each successively generated sampling value; and the selecting unit is configured to select a given image frame from the stored image frames in dependence upon whether a number of sequential image frames between the given image frame and the target image frame coincides with one of the successively generated sampling values.

Abstract: A system for modifying the presentation of pre-generated content to a user, the system comprising a user focus determination unit configured to determine a level of user focus in respect of at least a portion of content being displayed to the user, a user profile obtaining unit configured to obtain a user profile indicating one or more characteristics of the user, a content modification unit configured to modify, in response to a determination of the level of user focus falling below a threshold value, the presentation of one or more portions of the pre-generated content to increase the level of user focus, wherein the modification is determined in dependence upon the obtained user profile.

Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for an augmented reality positioning system wherein an augmented reality device may directly (or indirectly through a separate smart device) connect with a constellation of beacons with ultra-wideband (UWB) modules to estimate a position and overall attitude for the augmented reality device and modify the perceived position of a virtual elements in space accordingly. The embodiments may include configurations for how various devices may connect and send data between one another. The embodiments may further include various constellation arrangements for beacons as well as embodiments of methods of trilateration that may be used to interpret data from various beacons.