Patents by Inventor Ken Kutaragi
Ken Kutaragi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230280841Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Ken KUTARAGI
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Patent number: 11693490Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Ken Kutaragi
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Patent number: 11504629Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: facilitating communication between one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, and a data processing apparatus running an application program, wherein each controller device includes a plurality of actuation elements that are operable to be manipulated by a respective one of the one or more users to input desired operations to the data processing apparatus for use by the application program; obtaining a respective controller identifier from each of the one or more controller devices; and storing in a memory the controller identifiers in response to the control section in a sequential table, such that each entry in the sequential table includes at least a sequential table entry number and a respective one of the controller identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20220229499Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Ken KUTARAGI
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Patent number: 11334175Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20210205709Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: facilitating communication between one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, and a data processing apparatus running an application program, wherein each controller device includes a plurality of actuation elements that are operable to be manipulated by a respective one of the one or more users to input desired operations to the data processing apparatus for use by the application program; obtaining a respective controller identifier from each of the one or more controller devices; and storing in a memory the controller identifiers in response to the control section in a sequential table, such that each entry in the sequential table includes at least a sequential table entry number and a respective one of the controller identifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20210200334Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Ken KUTARAGI
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Patent number: 10983607Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Ken Kutaragi
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Patent number: 10967273Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving inputs at at least one server from a controller over an internet connection; using the inputs in a processing system to produce data based thereon representing desired operations by a user of the controller; and transmitting the data from the service provider server system back over the internet connection.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20200238180Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving inputs at at least one server from a controller over an internet connection; using the inputs in a processing system to produce data based thereon representing desired operations by a user of the controller; and transmitting the data from the service provider server system back over the internet connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Patent number: 10653963Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving inputs at a service provider server system from a controller over an internet connection; using the inputs in a processing system to produce data based thereon representing desired operations by a user of the controller; and transmitting the data from the service provider server system back over the internet connection.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20190361540Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Ken KUTARAGI
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Publication number: 20190321731Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving inputs at a service provider server system from a controller over an internet connection; using the inputs in a processing system to produce data based thereon representing desired operations by a user of the controller; and transmitting the data from the service provider server system back over the internet connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Patent number: 10401978Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Ken Kutaragi
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Patent number: 10376790Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: establishing communications between a controller for operation by a user and a center device, wherein the center device is operable to execute at least one application program and to produce an output for display that is manipulated in accordance with inputs received by the center device from the controller device; measuring one or more pieces of biometric information of the user via a biometric sensor circuit of the controller; storing one or more pieces of predetermined user information, including authentication key information about the user in a memory element of the controller; and performing authentication of the user by comparing the measured biometric information with the predetermined authentication key information via a control circuit of the controller, where authentication is satisfied when the comparison indicates a predetermined threshold of concurrence between the measured biometric information and the predetermined authentication key information.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20190046884Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: establishing communications between a controller for operation by a user and a center device, wherein the center device is operable to execute at least one application program and to produce an output for display that is manipulated in accordance with inputs received by the center device from the controller device; measuring one or more pieces of biometric information of the user via a biometric sensor circuit of the controller; storing one or more pieces of predetermined user information, including authentication key information about the user in a memory element of the controller; and performing authentication of the user by comparing the measured biometric information with the predetermined authentication key information via a control circuit of the controller, where authentication is satisfied when the comparison indicates a predetermined threshold of concurrence between the measured biometric information and the predetermined authentication key information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Patent number: 10137375Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating in respective paired relationships between a network interface and one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; and outputting light emission controls to the paired one or more controller devices, wherein the one or more controller devices each include at least one light emitter that responds to the light emission controls by emitting a selected one of a plurality of colors, outputting a first light emission control to a first of the one or more controller devices that first achieves the paired relationship, and wherein the first light emission control operates to cause a particular first color among the plurality of colors to emit, and outputting a second light emission control to a second of the one or more controller devices that next achieves the paired relationship after the first of the one or more controller devices, and wherein the secondType: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20180126278Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating in respective paired relationships between a network interface and one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; and outputting light emission controls to the paired one or more controller devices, wherein the one or more controller devices each include at least one light emitter that responds to the light emission controls by emitting a selected one of a plurality of colors, outputting a first light emission control to a first of the one or more controller devices that first achieves the paired relationship, and wherein the first light emission control operates to cause a particular first color among the plurality of colors to emit, and outputting a second light emission control to a second of the one or more controller devices that next achieves the paired relationship after the first of the one or more controller devices, and wherein the secondType: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Patent number: 9884255Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating with one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; controlling a display for displaying a menu of one or more controller identifiers which are related to the one or more controller devices, respectively, and which are selectable from the menu by the one or more users; storing relation information between one or more user identifiers, which are related to the one or more users, respectively, and the one or more controller identifiers that are selected; carrying out operation inputs transmitted from the selected one or more controller devices as instruction operations for the related one or more user identifiers that correspond to the selected one or more controller identifiers; executing at least one application program and producing an output for display that is manipulated in accordance with the operation inputs; and identifying, from among the stType: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi
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Publication number: 20170106289Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating with one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; controlling a display for displaying a menu of one or more controller identifiers which are related to the one or more controller devices, respectively, and which are selectable from the menu by the one or more users; storing relation information between one or more user identifiers, which are related to the one or more users, respectively, and the one or more controller identifiers that are selected; carrying out operation inputs transmitted from the selected one or more controller devices as instruction operations for the related one or more user identifiers that correspond to the selected one or more controller identifiers; executing at least one application program and producing an output for display that is manipulated in accordance with the operation inputs; and identifying, from among the stType: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mariko Hino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Ken Kutaragi