Patents Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment In.
  • Synchronization of favorites and/or recently viewed lists between registered content playback devices
    Patent number: 10200756
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and employing software to handle the playback of media, especially video, in browsers that, in addition to or instead of playing the media in the browser, may use second display protocols to instruct a separate display device to play the media. The software can of any type that can transmit the content or specify a network location of the content item for subsequent playback to a content playback device. In one implementation, the software may be in the form of a web browser or other application that is configured to use for the playback of selected media types. The browser maintains a list of favorite and/or recently viewed services and content items and is configured to filter the list to include only those content items, or services with such content items, available for play back on the separate content playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventors: Ling Jun Wong, Charles McCoy, True Xiong
  • Parallel intra-prediction encoding/decoding process utilizing PIPCM and/or PIDC for selected sections
    Patent number: 10200716
    Abstract: Digital pictures may be encoded and decoded in a way that optimizes parallelization. Selected sections of a digital picture in a first list are encoded independently of encoding any of their neighbor sections. Sections in a second list located to the right of corresponding sections in the first list are encoded using at most the section to their immediate left. Sections in a third list located to the right of a corresponding section in the second list and immediately below a corresponding section in the first list are encoded using at most the sections to the immediate left, immediately above and immediately to its above-right. All other sections of the picture may be encoded in a normal manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Rathish Krishnan, Hung-Ju Lee
  • Addressing inside-enterprise hack attempts
    Patent number: 10200385
    Abstract: An enterprise computer network is monitored to detect and neutralize security breaches. In a first case failed login attempts to multiple target machines are noted and if they come from one machine or a small number of originating machines, a password spraying attack from the originating machines is indicated, resulting in the originating machines being segregated from the system. In another case, multiple indicators of compromise are used to determine whether an enterprise machine is infected with malware and only if multiple indicators are present is the machine segregated from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventor: Derek Rook
  • Dynamic denial of service detection and automated safe mitigation
    Patent number: 10200375
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for automated detection and mitigation of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. One method includes an operation for collecting traffic data from service network routers that provide users access to a service. The traffic data is applied to security rules to identify a blacklist of illegitimate users to be blocked. Further, the method receives from the one or more servers a whitelist with information regarding legitimate users and their geographical location. A safe blacklist is determined for each router based on the blacklist and the whitelist, and the respective safe blacklist is sent to each router. Legitimate users are not blocked from accessing the service, but an illegitimate user spoofing a legitimate user is blocked by the routers when trying to access the service from a geographic location that is not the geographic location of the legitimate user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin James Steele
  • Apparatus and method of image rendering
    Patent number: 10198848
    Abstract: A method of image rendering includes representing a height map of terrain elevation data as a virtual texture; sampling a portion of the height map terrain elevation data on a uniform grid corresponding to render nodes used for rendering a terrain mesh, where a correspondence of the grid to the render nodes results in the sampled terrain elevation data for a render node being entirely contained within one physical page of memory, and where the equivalent position of a heightmap virtual co-ordinate in a page of physical memory is obtained based upon an offset to a physical page co-ordinate, rather than by reference to an indirection texture; and rendering terrain mesh for a render node according to terrain elevation data obtained from a single physical page of memory corresponding to respective virtual co-ordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Guillaume Marie Boissé, Richard Forster
  • Head-mountable apparatus and systems
    Patent number: 10198866
    Abstract: A head mountable display (HMD) includes a camera operable to capture images of a peripheral and/or control device in use by a wearer of the HMD. A detector of the HMD is configured to detect occlusions in a captured image of the peripheral and/or control device. And an image renderer of the HMD is configured to render a virtual version of the peripheral and/or control device for display to the HMD wearer and to render a representation of a user's hand at a position of a detected occlusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Ian Henry Bickerstaff, Simon Mark Benson, Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal, Darren Myatt
  • Automated artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistant
    Patent number: 10195531
    Abstract: A method for assisting game play. The method includes monitoring game play of the user playing a gaming application, wherein the user has a defined task to accomplish, wherein the task is associated with a task type. The method includes determining a task type proficiency rule for the task type based on results of a plurality of players taking on a plurality of tasks having the task type. The method includes determining a player proficiency score for accomplishing the task based on the task type proficiency rule. The method includes determining a user predictive rate of success in accomplishing the task based on the player proficiency score, the task type proficiency rule, and the task. The method includes determining a recommendation for the user based on the user predictive rate of success.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Osman, Jeffrey R. Stafford, Javier F. Rico, Michael G. Taylor, Todd S. Tokubo
  • Mobile terminal, wearable terminal, sonic distance measurement system, and sonic distance measurement method
    Patent number: 10197673
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal including: a reproducing section adapted to reproduce a first distance measurement signal; a recording section adapted to record the first distance measurement signal and a second distance measurement signal output from other mobile terminal; a time difference measurement section adapted to measure a first difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals; a communication section adapted to receive a second difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals from the other mobile terminal, the second difference being measured by the other mobile terminal; and a distance calculation section adapted to calculate a distance to the other mobile terminal by multiplying the subtraction result between the first and second differences by the speed of sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Horie, Hideyuki Sasaki
  • Systems for using three-dimensional object as controller in an interactive game
    Patent number: 10195528
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided for executing an application for interfacing with a virtual reality scene. In one method includes capturing image data of an object using a camera and processing the image data of the object to identify geometric parameters of object. During an interactive session processed by a computer system, the method uses the captured image data and the identified geometric parameters of the object to track movements of the object. The method then causes rendering on a display, the virtual object. The virtual object is used to represent the object. The virtual object rendered on the display such that movement of the object causes rendering of corresponding movement by the virtual object on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: Gary Zalewski, Tomas Gillo
  • HEAD-MOUNTABLE DISPLAY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190033600
    Abstract: A head mountable display (HMD) system comprises a detector and a controller. The detector is configured to detect a first illumination level in a first one of a display image for display to a user via an HMD and an ambient environment around the HMD. The controller is configured to control a second illumination level in a second one of the display image for display to a user via an HMD and the ambient environment around the HMD, according to the detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal, Simon John Hall
  • Information processing apparatus for navigating and selecting programs
    Patent number: 10191642
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a novel user interface capable of switching a number of images for display on a screen. The information processing apparatus displays a menu image representing one or more menu item images on a screen, displays, when any one of the one or more menu item images is selected, a selection target image associated with the selected menu item image on the screen, stores a selected order of already-selected ones of the one or more menu item images, displays, when one direction along one side of the screen is specified, another selection target image, which is selected in accordance with the stored selected order and the one direction, and redisplays the menu image when an opposite direction to the one direction is specified in a state in which the selection target image associated with the menu image selected most recently is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi, Toru Morita
  • Mobile phone game interface
    Patent number: 10188942
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for enabling a mobile station to control a virtual world being executed on a console system are described. The method can include establishing a communication link between the mobile station and a console system, identifying user interface characteristics of the mobile station, and providing a controller application to the mobile station, the controller application being based on the identified user interface characteristics and configured to transform user interface inputs into controller commands. The method can further include receiving signals containing data representing the controller commands from the mobile station over the communication link and determining a sequence of events of the virtual world based on the received controller commands. In one aspect, the controller application can execute in the context of an application on the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Pramod P. Patil
  • Interactive input controls in a simulated three-dimensional (3D) environment
    Patent number: 10191566
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) system supports improved interactive control processes/services. These interactive control processes/services include detecting movement of a controller associated with a virtual reality (VR) environment, determining an angle of rotation based on the movement, determining a magnitude of force associated with the movement, determining a path in the VR environment that corresponds to the angle of rotation and the magnitude of force, and projecting the path in the VR environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: James Beach, Hao Chi, Jin Zhang, Mark Gadzikowski, Dustin Boyle, Jonathan Courney
  • Mobile body
    Patent number: 10192538
    Abstract: A mobile body includes a driving mechanism, a speaker, and a control unit. The driving mechanism supplies power moving the mobile body. The control unit generates from the speaker a sound wave canceling a driving sound generated from the driving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamagishi, Osamu Ota
  • Augmenting virtual reality content with real world content
    Patent number: 10191541
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs for augmenting a virtual reality scene with real world content are provided. One example method includes an operation for obtaining sensor data from an HMD of a user to determine that a criteria is met to overlay one or more real world objects into the virtual reality scene to provide an augmented virtual reality scene. In certain examples, the criteria corresponds to predetermined indicators suggestive of disorientation of a user when wearing the HMD and being presented a virtual reality scene. In certain other examples, the one or more real world objects are selected based on their effectiveness at reorienting a disoriented user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Ruxin Chen
  • Real-time user adaptive foveated rendering
    Patent number: 10192528
    Abstract: Foveated rendering based on user gaze tracking may be adjusted to account for the realities of human vision. Gaze tracking error and state parameters may be determined from gaze tracking data representing a user's gaze with respect to one or more images presented to a user. Adjusted foveation data representing an adjusted size and/or shape of one or more regions of interest in one or more images to be subsequently presented to a user may be generated based on the one or more gaze tracking error or state parameters. Foveated image data representing one or more foveated images may be generated with the adjusted foveation data. The foveated images are characterized by level of detail within the one or more regions of interest and lower level of detail outside the one or more regions of interest. The foveated images may then be presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Young, Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Generation of gameplay video based on social network sharing
    Patent number: 10188945
    Abstract: A method, including: executing, by a cloud gaming system, a session of a video game; recording the user's gameplay of the video game; analyzing the user's recorded gameplay to determine a region of interest, the region of interest being a region of the video game having social network sharing levels that exceed a predefined threshold; during the session of the video game, receiving a request from the client device, the request being initiated from a button of a controller device interfaced to the client device; responsive to the request, presenting, through the client device, the region of interest; generating, by the cloud gaming system, a gameplay video of the video game based on the region of interest; sharing the gameplay video of the video game over the social network to one or more additional client devices for viewing by one or more additional users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: Victor Octav Suba Miura, David Perry, Philippe Dias, Kelvin Yong
  • Information processing apparatus and information processing method
    Patent number: 10192360
    Abstract: By extracting figures of a play field and a display apparatus from a taken image, the positional coordinates of the play field and a screen in a world coordinate system are obtained. Next, a virtual world is built such that the ground of the virtual world is positioned continually flush with the surface of the play field in a real world, on the opposite side of the real world with the screen in between in a virtual space defined in the world coordinate system. Then, a virtual viewpoint is placed at a position corresponding to the viewpoint of a user in a real space so as to generate an image with the virtual world projected to the screen on the basis of this virtual viewpoint as a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Osawa, Naoki Numaguchi, Shinichi Hirata, Keiji Togawa, Takeshi Yamagishi
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, PARENTAL CONTROL METHOD, PROFILE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD
    Publication number: 20190022533
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a holding unit configured to hold setting information regarding parental control for each user in association with user identification information, and a limit processing unit configured to limit usage of a predetermined function or device by the user on a basis of the setting information held by the holding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicants: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Itsuki ASANUMA, Makoto OSHITA, Seiichi ADACHI, Marc HORNE, Hidekazu Ii, Yoshihiko SUWA, Shigeru ENOMOTO, Syunsuke BAMBA, Kei SATO, Kenjiro KOMAKI, Fumikazu HATANAKA
  • Arithmetic and control unit
    Patent number: D839356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii