Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation Entertainment Europe Limited
  • Patent number: 8432476
    Abstract: A portable electronic device comprises a display facing in a first direction, a video camera facing in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, and a wireless communications receiver operable to receive supplementary image data from a remote image source, the supplementary image data comprising an indication of where a supplementary image is positioned with respect to a reference image. The portable electronic device is arranged in operation to display a captured image from the video camera on the display of the portable electronic device. When the captured image comprises all or part of the reference image as displayed on a separate display associated with the remote image source, the portable electronic device is arranged in operation to display the supplementary image positioned with respect to the reference image, instead of the corresponding part of the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Jed Ashforth, Simon Barlow, Scott Kirkland, Matt Southern
  • Patent number: 8216036
    Abstract: An entertainment system comprises a remotely controlled toy having a video camera operable to capture video images of a real environment and an entertainment device operable to communicate using a data communications link with the remotely controlled toy, in which the device comprises transmitting means operable to transmit, via the data communications link, control data to the remotely controlled toy that relates to the control of the remotely controlled toy, receiving means operable to receive, from the data communications link, video images captured by the video camera—of the remotely controlled toy, detecting means operable to detect a real environment feature within the real environment, processing means operable to generate a virtual image feature in dependence upon the detected real environment feature, and displaying means operable to generate a combined display of the captured video images and the virtual image feature such that the virtual image feature is arranged with respect to the video images s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Adriana Maria Eyzaguirre, Peter John Hodges