Patents by Inventor Phillip PROFITT

Phillip PROFITT 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).

  • Patent number: 9280265
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets on a display screen of a display device; an input acquiring unit that acquires a position of input from a front touch panel or a rear touch panel, which can detect input on the display screen; and a movement control unit that defines as a target to be moved a display target displayed by the display control unit on the display screen at a position corresponding to the position of a first input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, and operative to scroll a display target other than the target to be moved in accordance with a second input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit while keeping the display position of the target to be moved at the position of the first input entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Yoshiyuki Imada, Phillip Profitt
  • Patent number: 9164600
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile device including a magnetic sensor and a posture detection sensor for detecting a posture of the mobile device independently of the magnetic sensor, which acquires output data of the magnetic sensor as a plurality of sampling data items in a plurality of states in which the posture detection sensor determines that the mobile device is directed in directions different from one another, the plurality of sampling data items respectively corresponding to the plurality of states, and calculates an offset value which is estimated to be output by the magnetic sensor when the magnetic sensor is not sensing geomagnetism based on the acquired plurality of sampling data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Phillip Profitt
  • Patent number: 9128550
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which allows a user to provide, regardless of a position or direction of a touch sensor, an operation input to the touch sensor at an arbitrary position or in an arbitrary direction. The information processing device includes two touch sensors each including a detection surface for detecting a position of an object thereon, the two touch sensors being arranged to be opposed to each other, determines at least one of a reference point and a reference axis based on one or a plurality of positions detected by one touch sensor of the two touch sensors, and evaluates a content detected by another touch sensor of the two touch sensors based on the at least one of the determined reference point and the determined reference axis to determine a content of an operation input of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Imada, Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Phillip Profitt
  • Publication number: 20130181930
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which allows a user to provide, regardless of a position or direction of a touch sensor, an operation input to the touch sensor at an arbitrary position or in an arbitrary direction. The information processing device includes two touch sensors each including a detection surface for detecting a position of an object thereon, the two touch sensors being arranged to be opposed to each other, determines at least one of a reference point and a reference axis based on one or a plurality of positions detected by one touch sensor of the two touch sensors, and evaluates a content detected by another touch sensor of the two touch sensors based on the at least one of the determined reference point and the determined reference axis to determine a content of an operation input of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Imada, Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Phillip Profitt
  • Publication number: 20130100051
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets that are classified into a plurality of layers of a hierarchy; an input acquiring unit that acquires input on a front touch panel or a rear touch panel; and a switch control unit that switches display targets in a first layer in case that the input acquiring unit acknowledges a first operational input entry, which includes an input entry on the front or rear touch panel and movement of the position of the input entry thereafter, and that switches display targets in a second layer on a level upper than the first layer in case that the input acquiring unit acknowledges a second operational input entry, which includes a concurrent input entries on the front and rear touch panel and movement of the positions of the input entries thereafter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Yoshiyuki Imada, Phillip Profitt
  • Publication number: 20130100049
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets on a display screen of a display device; an input acquiring unit that acquires a position of input from a front touch panel or a rear touch panel, which can detect input on the display screen; and a movement control unit that defines as a target to be moved a display target displayed by the display control unit on the display screen at a position corresponding to the position of a first input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, and operative to scroll a display target other than the target to be moved in accordance with a second input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit while keeping the display position of the target to be moved at the position of the first input entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Arito MOCHIZUKI, Tomoya KITAYAMA, Yoshiyuki IMADA, Phillip PROFITT
  • Publication number: 20130100050
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets on a display screen of a display device; an input acquiring unit that acquires a position of input from a front touch panel or a rear touch panel, which can detect input on the display screen; and a deformation control unit that defines as a reference position a position on the display screen corresponding to the position of a first input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, and that deforms, in accordance with a second input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, a display target displayed on the display screen, while keeping the reference position as the center of the deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Phillip Profitt, Yoshiyuki Imada, Tomoya Kitayama, Arito Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20120296596
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile device including a magnetic sensor and a posture detection sensor for detecting a posture of the mobile device independently of the magnetic sensor, which acquires output data of the magnetic sensor as a plurality of sampling data items in a plurality of states in which the posture detection sensor determines that the mobile device is directed in directions different from one another, the plurality of sampling data items respectively corresponding to the plurality of states, and calculates an offset value which is estimated to be output by the magnetic sensor when the magnetic sensor is not sensing geomagnetism based on the acquired plurality of sampling data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Phillip PROFITT