Patents Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Publication number: 20250113075Abstract: There is provided a method of providing a custom manifest for a content stream to a user electronic device, the method comprising receiving a request for a manifest file, generating a custom manifest, wherein the custom manifest defines a personalised version of the content stream, and sending the custom manifest to the user electronic device. The method further comprises providing an updated custom manifest file based on a received updated request. There is also provided a method of outputting a content stream on a user electronic device, the method comprising sending a request for a manifest file, receiving a custom manifest file, and outputting a personalised version of the content stream as defined in the custom manifest file. The method further comprises sending an updated request for a custom manifest associated with the content stream, and receiving an updated custom manifest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Richard Thomas DOWNEY, Martin Selby GEORGE, Andrew William WALKER
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Publication number: 20250108518Abstract: A drive device (7) that unwinds, in a first direction, a wire (WR) connected to an operation target (41, 551, 552) with predetermined tension and pulls the wire in a direction opposite to the first direction to cause the operation target to perform an action includes a motor (71), a first rotating member (74) that can be rotated by the motor in a second direction and in a direction opposite to the second direction about a rotation axis (Rx5), a pulling member (TM) that is provided rotatably coaxially with the first rotating member, holds an end (WR1) of the wire, rotates in the second direction to unwind the wire in the first direction, and rotates in the direction opposite to the second direction to pull the wire in the direction opposite to the first direction, and a pulling member side urging member (77) that urges the pulling member in the direction opposite to the second direction relative to the first rotating member, in which, when the wire is moved in the first direction due to an external factor, theType: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Hirata, Hitoshi Nakamura, Yuuichi Machida, Toru Kuronuma, Takuya Kuji, Maito Omori, Toshiyuki Ando, Yumi Ueda, Takeshi Asano
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Publication number: 20250111583Abstract: An image processing device for acquiring, with regard to a human object located in a virtual space, map data of the surface of the human object that is used in order to determine the external appearance of a region of the human object corresponding to the skin, acquiring state information indicating the state in the virtual space, and correcting a value included in the map data on the basis of the acquired state information, and the image processing device draws a spatial image illustrating an appearance of the virtual space by using the corrected map data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Masaomi NISHIDATE
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Publication number: 20250108296Abstract: An entertainment device, method and computer program, the entertainment device includes processing circuitry to process a game state of a game and to generate, based on a plurality of game assets, an image of a scene, and output circuitry to output the image for display. The processing circuitry is configured to determine, based on the plurality of game assets, whether the scene includes at least one character communicating using sign language, to adjust the generation of the image in dependence on whether the scene comprises the at least one character communicating using sign language.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Rajeev Gupta, Mandana Jenabzadeh, Alex Dixon, Oliver Hume, Damian O'Sullivan, Hubert Lu
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Publication number: 20250113459Abstract: An HMD that suppresses a temperature rise in the apparatus main body efficiently is provided. The HMD includes a main body housing that accommodates at least a display panel, a right lens, and a left lens therein, a mounting band that supports the main body housing and is mounted on the head of a user, and a duct accommodated in the main body housing and configuring part of a flow path that discharges air in the main body housing to the outside thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Yoshiyuki OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20250110524Abstract: A method for reducing uneven wear of a thumbstick of a controller, the thumbstick being rotatably held within a socket of a housing of the controller, and the method comprising: pivoting a thumbstick of a controller within a socket of a housing of the controller; and rotating the thumbstick within the socket and around a pivoted central axis of the thumbstick.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Jun Yen Leung, Patrick John Connor, Maria Chiara Monti, Lawrence Martin Green, Maurizio Cerrato, Rajeev Gupta
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Patent number: 12266151Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data collection section, a relation learning section, and a map generation section. The data collection section collects a feature quantity of a physical movement of a user and situation information indicating a situation of the user when the physical movement is made. The relation learning section creates a learned model for classification of the feature quantity of the physical movement according to the situation information, by learning a relation between the feature quantity of the physical movement and the situation information. The map generation section generates, on the basis of the learned model, a map that is capable of associating the situation information with the feature quantity of the physical movement.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Yoshikazu Onuki
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Patent number: 12263409Abstract: An electronic device and a method for implementation of super-fungible tokens for gaming is disclosed. The electronic device tracks a set of gaming assets associated with a player in a gaming application. Metadata associated with the set of gaming assets is received and a super-fungible token is created, based on a storage of the metadata to a distributed ledger associated with the gaming application. The creation of the super-fungible token corresponds to an ownership of a single gaming asset from the set of gaming assets by the player in the gaming application at a time instant. A first user input indicative of a selection of a first gaming asset is received. The selected first gaming asset is enabled and a set of second gaming assets are disabled in the gaming application. The disabled set of second gaming assets correspond to gaming assets other than the enabled first gaming asset.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: James R Milne, True Xiong, Charles McCoy
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Patent number: 12263408Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure include systems and techniques for generating content that indicates a sensation associated with audio. One example method generally includes monitoring audio to be played during display of an associated portion of an interactive content stream provided over a communication network to at least one viewing device during an interactive session, and analyzing, via a machine learning component, the audio to determine a sensation associated with at least a portion of the audio. The method may also include determining an effect indicating the sensation, wherein the effect is associated with one or more output devices associated with the at least one viewing device, and outputting an indication of the effect to the associated output devices, wherein the effect is configured to be output along with the audio in real-time with the display of the associated portion of the interactive content stream.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Victoria Walker, Olga Rudi, Aslanta Chen, Phoenix Nitta-Hill, Charles McCoy, Steven Osman
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Publication number: 20250102799Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for processing information for a head-mounted display for blocking out an outside world from a user's vision when worn by the user to present a video, by carrying out actions comprising: measuring outside world information related to a boundary of an area within which user movement is acceptable; presenting, at a user interface, the outside world information; detecting, based on the outside world information, a change to the boundary; generating, based on the change, notification information about at least one of the boundary or the user movement relative to the boundary; and presenting, at the user interface or a different user interface, the notification information as a notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Morio Usami
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Publication number: 20250103263Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that accepts an input of an emulation setting relating to a function of a display monitor as a target of emulation and executes a display output of an image rendered by executing an application program to a display monitor actually connected, in such a manner as to emulate a state in which a display monitor with a function represented by the accepted emulation setting is virtually connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Koichi YOSHIDA, Sachiyo AOKI, Yasunari HATASAWA, Takahiro AIZAWA
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Publication number: 20250099853Abstract: The application provides a computer-implemented method for simulating a reflected audio path in a virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising a source, a receiver, an obstacle, and a sound-reflective boundary, the reflected audio path associated with reflection at the sound-reflective boundary, and the method comprising: simulating, by an image-source method, the reflected audio path between the source and the receiver, the image-source method comprising: generating, by mirroring the source in the sound-reflective boundary, a mirror image source, and determining a simulated reflected audio path along a line segment between the receiver and the mirror image source; generating, by mirroring the obstacle in the sound-reflective boundary, a mirror image obstacle; performing a line-of-sight check between the receiver and the mirror image source; and, when at least one of the obstacle and the mirror image obstacle lies along the line segment between the mirror image source and the receiver, performing aType: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Michael Lee Jones, Christopher George Buchanan, Calum Armstrong, Alexei Ashton Derek Smith, Maria Pilataki Manika
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Publication number: 20250104597Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus which executes an application program to draw, according to a processing content of this application program, a frame image to be displayed on a screen of a display apparatus capable of updating the frame image at a variable refresh rate and determines a permissible rate range permitted as a refresh rate, according to an operation condition of the display apparatus assumed by the application program, to cause the display apparatus to execute refresh at a variable refresh rate within the determined permissible rate range.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takahiro AIZAWA, Sachiyo AOKI, Kenichiro YOKOTA, Koichi YOSHIDA, Toru OGISO, Yasunari HATASAWA
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Publication number: 20250099854Abstract: A computer-implemented method of synthesising an HRTF is disclosed. The method comprising: providing the HRTF of a subject measured at a particular measurement angle; processing the HRTF to remove localisation perception features of the HRTF, where the processing comprises: removing spectral notches from the measured HRTF, the resulting processed HRTF referred to as the HRTF?; and calculating a subject's HRTF timbre by subtracting a baseline HRTF at the measurement angle from the subject's HRTF, the baseline HRTF comprising a generalised response component such that the HR TF timbre comprises subject-specific variations in the HRTF. The method further comprises using the HRTF timbre to synthesise an HRTF. The method allows for generating a personalised timbre component of an HRTF to provide better personalisation of an HRTF, thereby providing improved binaural audio.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Calum Armstrong, Maria Pilataki Manika, Philip Cockram
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Publication number: 20250106532Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including a transmission determining section that determines whether or not to transmit an event signal output from a vision sensor which is of an event-driven type and which includes a plurality of sensors constituting a sensor array, on the basis of position information for each of the sensors in the sensor array.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Naoki Egawa, Hiromasa Naganuma, Masakazu Hayashi
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Publication number: 20250103860Abstract: A computer-implemented method of training a deep learning model for use in synthesis of a head-related transfer function, HRTF, is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a training dataset comprising a plurality of timbre features, each timbre feature comprising an HRTF measurement of a subject at a particular measurement angle, where the HRTF measurement has been processed to remove localisation perception features of the HRTF; training an autoencoder model, that is conditioned using the measurement angle, to encode the input timbre feature into a latent vector space and reconstruct the input timbre feature from the latent vector space, thereby learning a latent vector space that encodes timbre information independent of the measurement angle, such that the latent vector space is usable to synthesise a timbre component of an HRTF. The method allows for generating a personalised timbre component of an HRTF to provide better personalisation of an HRTF, thereby providing improved binaural audio.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Calum Armstrong, Maria Pilataki Manika, Philip Cockram
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Publication number: 20250106354Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a display apparatus capable of updating a frame image at a variable refresh rate executes a drawing process of a frame image, transmits the drawn frame image to the display apparatus, measures a drawing time period required for a drawing process of the frame image, and changes an operation condition of the drawing process according to the measured drawing time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kenichiro YOKOTA, Jin SATOH, Masaki SASAKI, Keisuke INOUE
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Patent number: 12257501Abstract: To provide a game presenting system having a plurality of game systems for each executing a process of a game in which a plurality of users participate, and a game presenting machine for presenting a situation of the game executed by the game system, wherein the game presenting machine obtains a motion image related to the game executed by each of the plurality of game systems, and produces a game presenting screen image showing, as a list, at least some of the plurality of motion images obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Yumi Kataoka
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Patent number: 12260579Abstract: An application processor processes an application. A sensor processor acquires image data from an image sensor and analyzes the image data. A motion controlling processor controls motion of a movable part of a robot. The motion controlling processor provides posture information for specifying an orientation of the image sensor to the sensor processor, not via the application processor. The posture information includes information for specifying a position of the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masayoshi Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Takagi
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Patent number: 12259033Abstract: A work of incorporating a speed reduction mechanism including a scissors gear into a gear case is facilitated. In a state where the angular positions of gear teeth of a first gear and the angular positions of gear teeth of a scissors gear are made to coincide with each other against the elastic force of a torsion spring (19), these angular positions are fixed by a fixing member (position fixing step). The first gear, the scissors gear, and a second gear are housed in a gear case, and the gear teeth of the second gear are made to engage with the gear teeth of the first gear and the gear teeth of the scissors gear (gear incorporating step). The fixing of the angular position of the first gear and the angular position of the scissors gear by the fixing member is released through an opening formed in the gear case.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuta Koda, Keiji Togawa, Hiroshi Osawa