Patents Assigned to Interaction
  • GRAPHICS RENDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20240249447
    Abstract: A graphics rendering system, comprising: a rendering unit configured to render image content for display; and one or more sensors respectively operable to detect a temperature within or proximate to at least a respective part of the graphics rendering system, wherein if a value of at least one of the detected temperatures meets or exceeds a respective threshold value, then the rendering unit is configured to render a first part of the image content at a first image quality and render a second part of the image content at a second image quality different from the first image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick John Connor
  • Device including movable mass body provided in housing
    Patent number: 12042722
    Abstract: Provided is a device including a housing, a mass body arranged in the housing, a movement mechanism that moves the mass body in the housing, a vibrator, and a control unit that controls movement of the mass body and vibration of the vibrator. The control unit is capable of changing a position at which the vibrator is to vibrate in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yuta Koda
  • Single sphere foot operated position-based controller
    Patent number: 12045397
    Abstract: A foot operated controller apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a ball large enough for a human to manipulate with two feet, and a support apparatus configured to support the ball from below, restrict translation of the ball and permit rotation of the ball about its center with respect to at least two axes. One or more position encoders are disposed proximate a surface of the ball. The encoder(s) are configured to determine a rotational displacement of the ball with respect to two or more axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Black, Celeste Bean, Sergey Bashkirov, Michael Taylor
  • Image processing apparatus and image processing method
    Patent number: 12046218
    Abstract: An image data acquirement section of an image processing apparatus acquires data regarding a frame of a moving image generated by a server. A decoding/decompression section repeats a cycle of a decoding/decompression process for each of frames at a rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. An image processing section repeats a cycle of applying a necessary image process to each of the frames at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. The display control section outputs the data regarding the frame ready for displaying to a display panel at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Katsushi Otsuka, Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Head mounted displays (HMDs) with front facing cameras for transitioning between non-transparent modes and transparent modes
    Patent number: 12042729
    Abstract: Systems and methods for executing content to be rendered on a screen of a head mounted display (HMD) are provided. One method includes executing the content to render interactive scenes on the screen and tracking an orientation direction of the HMD when worn on a head of a user and the interactive scenes are being rendered on the screen. The method includes changing view directions into the interactive scenes based on changes in the orientation direction of the HMD, such that movements of the head of the user causes the changes in the view directions into the interactive scenes. The method further includes receiving images of a real world space using a camera of the HMD. The camera of the HMD is configured to capture a location of real world objects in the real world space relative to the user of the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Osman, Xiaodong Mao
  • Image rendering method and apparatus
    Patent number: 12045934
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel at a viewpoint includes: for a first element of a virtual scene, having a predetermined surface at a position within that scene, evaluating whether to render a pixel corresponding to the first element using a machine learning system having been trained to output a value representative of the lighting of the predetermined surface at the position, or using an alternative rendering approach, and rendering the pixel according to which of the machine learning system and the alternative rendering approach are chosen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James Bigos, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Antenna unit and communication equipment
    Patent number: 12046814
    Abstract: An antenna unit includes a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion that individually transmit or receive a wireless signal, and a ground portion electrically connected to the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion and including a portion positioned between the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion. A through-hole that resonates with a given frequency is provided at a position of the ground portion between the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Minoru Wakabayashi
  • Sled level boot management control of compute nodes for context switching using boot controllers
    Patent number: 12045627
    Abstract: A method for performing a system start up. The method including receiving at a board management controller (BMC) a startup configuration instruction to boot up a compute node with an operating system, wherein the compute node is located on a sled including a plurality of compute nodes, wherein the BMC is configured for managing a plurality of communication interfaces providing communication to the plurality of compute nodes. The method including sending a boot instruction from the BMC to a boot controller of the compute node over a communication interface to execute a basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware that is stored remote from the compute node. The method including performing execution of the BIOS firmware on the compute node to initiate loading of the operating system for execution by the compute node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Roelof Roderick Colenbrander
  • Communication device
    Patent number: 12041711
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communication connector, a communication control circuit, and a common mode filter. The communication control circuit controls communication that is established by way of the communication connector. The common mode filter is connected to each of the communication control circuit and the communication connector to relay the communication. Letting a wavelength corresponding to a clock frequency of an electric signal sent out from the communication control circuit be denoted as ?, an electrical length of a signal path at which resonance is produced by a reflected wave resulting from reflection of the electric signal by the common mode filter is closer to an even multiple of ?/2 than to an odd multiple thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsufumi Nozawa, Takatoshi Tsujikawa
  • Multi-threaded CABAC decoding
    Patent number: 12041252
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium for improved decoding CABAC encoded media are described. A decoding loop includes decoding an encoded binary element from a sequence of encoded binary elements to generate a decoded binary element using a context probability. A next context probability for a next encoded binary element in the sequence is determined from the decoded binary element and the next context probability for decoding the next encoded binary element is provided to the decoding loop for a next iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Wang, Manoj Srivastava
  • Data processing
    Patent number: 12039708
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes executing an initial version of computer game software, the executing step including rendering computer game video images for display; displaying the video images using a head mountable display (HMD); detecting user operation of one or more user controls to perform colour grading adjustments; applying the colour grading adjustments to the video images rendered by the rendering step; and generating colour grading data to be associated with a revised version of the computer game software; in which the executing step and the applying step are performed by different respective data processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Cockram, Anthony Dann
  • Integrated headset controller storage and connection
    Patent number: 12041405
    Abstract: A controller for providing inputs to an interactive application includes a first surface with a pair of slots to store earbuds, a plurality of control buttons and touch input surfaces defined on one or more surfaces including the first surface. A processor is configured to pair the controller to a computing device executing the interactive application and is coupled to each of the slots so as to pair the earbuds received therein to the controller and to share the pairing between the controller and the computing device with the earbuds received in the pair of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Karp, Darice Lee
  • Augmented reality artificial intelligence enhance ways user perceive themselves
    Patent number: 12039673
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating augmented reality (AR) scenes where the AR scenes can be adjusted to modify at least part of an image of the physical features of a user to produce a virtual mesh of the physical features. The method includes generating an augmented reality (AR) scene for rendering on a display for a user wearing AR glasses, the AR scene includes a real-world space and virtual objects overlaid in the real-world space. The method includes analyzing a field of view into the AR scene from the AR glasses; the analyzing is configured to detect images of physical features of the user when the field of view is directed toward at least part of said physical features of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Jorge Arroyo Palacios
  • Overlapping scan-in and encode at the server
    Patent number: 12036471
    Abstract: A method for cloud gaming. The method including generating a video frame when executing a video game at a server. The method including scanning-in the video frame to an encoder at the server scanline-by-scanline. The method including encoding one or more encoder slices as one or more encoded slices at the encoder, wherein each encoded slice is delivered to a buffer at an encoder fill rate. The method including draining a first encoded slice from the buffer to stream the first encoded slice at a buffer drain rate over a network to a client, wherein the first encoded slice is streamed over the network before fully encoding the one or more slices of the video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kelvin M. Yong, Mark E. Cerny
  • Methods for Improving Datasets for Skeleton-Based Action Detection
    Publication number: 20240233095
    Abstract: Disclosed here are various techniques for improving the testing and training of datasets comprising sequences of skeletal representations performing various actions. The dataset can be denoised by applying various techniques to determine noisy frames within each sequence and eliminating the sequences from the dataset when the number of noisy frames in the sequence is too large. In addition, the dataset may be augmented by various data augmentation techniques to manipulate the skeletal representations, after denoising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, AnyVision Interactive Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Marios Savvides, Yu Kai Huang, Eddie Yu
  • MOVING IMAGE RECEPTION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20240226754
    Abstract: Provided are a moving image reception device, a control method, and a program which can reduce a sense of discomfort felt by a user in a situation in which a moving image generated by a moving image transmission device in response to an operation on the moving image reception device is displayed on the moving image reception device. An operation data transmission unit transmits operation data corresponding to an input operation of the user to a cloud server. An image data reception unit receives, from the cloud server, interval data representing a time from reception of the operation data to a start of generation of the frame image based on this operation data in the cloud server. A transmission timing control unit controls a timing of the transmission of the next operation data, on the basis of the interval data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu TANIKAWA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND GAME IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD
    Publication number: 20240226738
    Abstract: A game executing section executes a game program on the basis of an operation made by a user, to generate a game image including a game character. A recording section records moving image data obtained by extracting a game character image from a past game video. A display processing section superimposes the game character image included in the moving image data, on the game image generated by the game executing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hirakawa, Hisataka Suzuki, Momoko Tsuchiya, David Gonzalez, Haitao Wang
  • FORCE SENSE PRESENTATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20240231493
    Abstract: A force sense presentation device 1 includes a base body 2 that is gripped by a hand of a user, a movable unit 3 having a finger placement portion 5 on which the user is to place a fingertip in a state in which the base body 2 is gripped by the user, and a moving mechanism that moves the movable unit 3 with respect to the base body 2. The base body 2 is held by two or more fingers. The finger placement portion 5 has a finger engagement portion 4 provided thereon uprightly in a direction different from a moving direction of the movable unit 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yuta KODA
  • DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20240226751
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: store information indicative of a general difficulty rating associated with each of one or more general gaming characteristics applicable to a plurality of video games; provide access to the stored information to an application of a first video game to enable a specific difficulty rating associated with a specific gaming characteristic applicable to the first video game to be determined based on each general difficulty rating; and provide access to the stored information to an application of a second video game to enable a specific difficulty rating associated with a specific gaming characteristic applicable to the second video game to be determined based on each general difficulty rating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Calum Armstrong, Navin Kamath, Ross Maw, Maria Chiara Monti
  • Adjustable siding install tool
    Patent number: D1035404
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Youcheng Interactive Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanyu Song, Zhipeng Hu, Shihao She, Song Sun