Patents by Inventor Sachiyo Aoki

Sachiyo Aoki 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).

  • Publication number: 20250166589
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that draws a display frame image to be displayed on a display apparatus and transmits the drawn display frame image to the display apparatus in one of operation modes of a fixed frame rate and a variable frame rate. The information processing apparatus draws a display frame image and transmits the drawn display frame image to the display apparatus in the operation mode of a variable frame rate, and switches, in a case where a moving image including contents that are drawn already when the drawing of the display frame image is performed is to be displayed on the display apparatus, the operation mode to the operation mode of a fixed frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi YOSHIDA, Sachiyo AOKI, Yasunari HATASAWA, Takahiro AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250118273
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which is connected to a display monitor and generates a video signal that is outputted to the display monitor and in which, in a case where a refresh rate for the display monitor is variable, one of a prescribed fixed refresh rate or a variable range that is for a variable refresh rate and is defined as a partial limited range from among a refresh range that the display monitor can support is selected by a prescribed limit range determination method, and the display monitor is controlled on the basis of the prescribed fixed refresh rate or the selected variable range pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi YOSHIDA, Sachiyo AOKI, Yasunari HATASAWA, Takahiro AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250104597
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro AIZAWA, Sachiyo AOKI, Kenichiro YOKOTA, Koichi YOSHIDA, Toru OGISO, Yasunari HATASAWA
  • Publication number: 20250103263
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi YOSHIDA, Sachiyo AOKI, Yasunari HATASAWA, Takahiro AIZAWA
  • Patent number: 12190849
    Abstract: Provided are a display control apparatus, a display control method, and a program that enable developers to implement application programs without needing to be aware of a safe area. An image acquisition section (42) acquires an image that is drawn in a frame buffer by an application program. A safe area setting specification section (44) specifies the setting of a safe area in a display section. An image generation section (48) generates a display target image including, as a part, the image sized according to the setting of the safe area. A display control section (50) causes the display section to display the display target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Toru Ogiso, Masato Mitsutake, Sachiyo Aoki, Michiko Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20240289913
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processor, the information processing apparatus drawing and buffering images frame by frame and outputting the buffered frame every predetermined timing, in which the processor performs a standby process of keeping a frame drawing process on standby until a specified timing, and starts and controls the performance of the frame drawing process after the standby process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo AOKI
  • Patent number: 11962820
    Abstract: Provided are an image generation apparatus, an image generation method, and a program for generating an image indicative of play status of a game in which two-dimensional objects representative of information to be offered to a viewing audience at the destination of delivery are clearly expressed. An image acquisition section acquires a game image indicative of the content to be displayed on a display device, the game image representing at least the play status of a game in which a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from a point of view in the virtual three-dimensional space. The image acquisition section also acquires a delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery, the delivery target two-dimensional image having the same resolution as that of an image to be delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiyo Aoki, Kenichiro Yokota, Takeshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11837199
    Abstract: An image transmission apparatus, an image transmission method, and a program enable a transmission destination to display an image similar to the image displayed at a transmission source. A display target image generation section generates a display target image having a display non-target region reflecting settings of a safe area of a display section. A display control section causes the display section to display an actual display image constituting a portion of the display target image. A transmission image generation section generates a transmission image that represents a portion of the display target image and excludes at least a portion of the display non-target region. A transmission section transmits the transmission image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Toru Ogiso, Masato Mitsutake, Sachiyo Aoki, Michiko Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11763519
    Abstract: Provided are an alpha value determination apparatus, an alpha value determination method, a program, and a data structure of image data that can represent an image rich in both color and transparency while suppressing the storage capacity necessary for storing the image data. A pixel data storage unit stores a plurality of pieces of pixel data indicating a pixel value and an index and associated individually with a plurality of pixels included in an image. An alpha value data storage unit stores alpha value data that is referenced in common by the index indicated in the plurality of pieces of pixel data and that indicates correspondence between the index and an alpha value. A combined image generation unit determines alpha values of a plurality of pixels associated with the respective pieces of pixel data based on the index indicated in the pixel data and the alpha value data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo Aoki
  • Publication number: 20220270572
    Abstract: An image transmission apparatus, an image transmission method, and a program are provided to enable a transmission destination to display an image similar to the image displayed at a transmission source. A display target image generation section (48) generates a display target image having a display non-target region reflecting settings of a safe area of a display section. A display control section (50) causes the display section to display an actual display image constituting a portion of the display target image. A transmission image generation section (52) generates a transmission image that represents a portion of the display target image and excludes at least a portion of the display non-target region. A transmission section (54) transmits the transmission image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Toru OGISO, Masato MITSUTAKE, Sachiyo AOKI, Michiko MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220254321
    Abstract: Provided are a display control apparatus, a display control method, and a program that enable developers to implement application programs without needing to be aware of a safe area. An image acquisition section (42) acquires an image that is drawn in a frame buffer by an application program. A safe area setting specification section (44) specifies the setting of a safe area in a display section. An image generation section (48) generates a display target image including, as a part, the image sized according to the setting of the safe area. A display control section (50) causes the display section to display the display target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Toru OGISO, Masato MITSUTAKE, Sachiyo AOKI, Michiko MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210312703
    Abstract: Provided are an alpha value determination apparatus, an alpha value determination method, a program, and a data structure of image data that can represent an image rich in both color and transparency while suppressing the storage capacity necessary for storing the image data. A pixel data storage unit stores a plurality of pieces of pixel data indicating a pixel value and an index and associated individually with a plurality of pixels included in an image. An alpha value data storage unit stores alpha value data that is referenced in common by the index indicated in the plurality of pieces of pixel data and that indicates correspondence between the index and an alpha value. A combined image generation unit determines alpha values of a plurality of pixels associated with the respective pieces of pixel data based on the index indicated in the pixel data and the alpha value data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo Aoki
  • Patent number: 11137604
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving an embedded image having different information embedded in an unused area of a rectangular image format for transmitting a primary image obtained by correcting beforehand an original image in a manner canceling out the distortion thereof that appears when viewed through lenses of a head-mounted display; outputting directly to a panel of the head-mounted display the embedded image received by the receiving section; and recomposing the different information by extracting the data thereof from the unused area for the embedded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210235139
    Abstract: Provided are an image generation apparatus, an image generation method, and a program for generating an image indicative of play status of a game in which two-dimensional objects representative of information to be offered to a viewing audience at the destination of delivery are clearly expressed. An image acquisition section acquires a game image indicative of the content to be displayed on a display device, the game image representing at least the play status of a game in which a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from a point of view in the virtual three-dimensional space. The image acquisition section also acquires a delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery, the delivery target two-dimensional image having the same resolution as that of an image to be delivered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiyo Aoki, Kenichiro Yokota, Takeshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10839499
    Abstract: During a period in which it is necessary to display two or more images in a superimposed manner, an image generation block of an information processing apparatus supplies the data of the image concerned to a superimposition processing block. A first image acquisition block and a second image acquisition block of the superimposition processing block acquire a first image and a second image, respectively, to be displayed in a superimposed manner. A luminance range adjustment block adjusts at least one luminance range as required with amount of adjustment corresponding to an alpha (?) value set to the second image. An output value computation block executes the computation of alpha blending by use of the image after adjustment so as to determine the pixel value of a display image, thereby outputting the determined pixel value to an image output block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo Aoki
  • Patent number: 10733963
    Abstract: A luminance space conversion section of an information processing apparatus converts an image signal represented in a luminance space corresponding to an SDR into a signal represented in a luminance space corresponding to an HDR, and outputs the converted signal to a synthesis processing section that performs alpha blend processing on an HDR image. In an adjustment mode, a parameter adjustment section allows a display apparatus to display an adjustment image represented in the SDR and adjusts a parameter used for a conversion of the luminance space so that a change in a display image is made small before and after converting the luminance space. The parameter is stored in a conversion parameter storage section after the adjustment and is used when a luminance signal conversion section performs conversion processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yokota, Sachiyo Aoki, Masaaki Hamada, Yute Lin
  • Publication number: 20190377188
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving an embedded image having different information embedded in an unused area of a rectangular image format for transmitting a primary image obtained by correcting beforehand an original image in a manner canceling out the distortion thereof that appears when viewed through lenses of a head-mounted display; outputting directly to a panel of the head-mounted display the embedded image received by the receiving section; and recomposing the different information by extracting the data thereof from the unused area for the embedded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190355107
    Abstract: During a period in which it is necessary to display two or more images in a superimposed manner, an image generation block of an information processing apparatus supplies the data of the image concerned to a superimposition processing block. A first image acquisition block and a second image acquisition block of the superimposition processing block acquire a first image and a second image, respectively, to be displayed in a superimposed manner. A luminance range adjustment block adjusts at least one luminance range as required with amount of adjustment corresponding to an alpha (?) value set to the second image. An output value computation block executes the computation of alpha blending by use of the image after adjustment so as to determine the pixel value of a display image, thereby outputting the determined pixel value to an image output block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190287494
    Abstract: A luminance space conversion section 66 of an information processing apparatus converts an image signal represented in a luminance space corresponding to an SDR into a signal represented in a luminance space corresponding to an HDR, and outputs the converted signal to a synthesis processing section 72 that performs alpha blend processing on an HDR image. In an adjustment mode, a parameter adjustment section 86 allows a display apparatus to display an adjustment image represented in the SDR and adjusts a parameter used for a conversion of the luminance space so that a change in a display image is made small before and after converting the luminance space. The parameter is stored in a conversion parameter storage section 84 after the adjustment and is used when a luminance signal conversion section 82 performs conversion processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yokota, Sachiyo Aoki, Masaaki Hamada, Yute Lin
  • Patent number: 10401628
    Abstract: An image generating section reads image data from an image storing section to generate an original image in keeping with the attitude of a head-mounted display. A lens distortion correcting section generates a primary image by correcting beforehand the original image in a manner canceling out the distortion thereof that appears when viewed through lenses of the head-mounted display. A different image embedding section generates an embedded image by embedding a different image into an unused area of a rectangular format for transmitting the primary image. An HDMI transmitting section transfers the embedded image to the head-mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sachiyo Aoki