Patents by Inventor Sahin Serdar Kocdemir

Sahin Serdar Kocdemir 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: 12045934
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel at a viewpoint includes: for a first element of a virtual scene, having a predetermined surface at a position within that scene, evaluating whether to render a pixel corresponding to the first element using a machine learning system having been trained to output a value representative of the lighting of the predetermined surface at the position, or using an alternative rendering approach, and rendering the pixel according to which of the machine learning system and the alternative rendering approach are chosen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James Bigos, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Patent number: 12020369
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel at a viewpoint includes: for a first element of a virtual scene, having a predetermined surface at a position within that scene, evaluating whether to render a pixel corresponding to the first element using at least a first machine learning system having been trained to generate an illuminance output representative of the lighting of the predetermined surface at the position, or using an alternative rendering approach, and rendering the pixel according to which of the at least first machine learning system and the alternative rendering approach are chosen in the evaluating step; where the evaluating step comprises obtaining a confidence value from the at least first machine learning system indicative of the accuracy of the illuminance output, the machine learning system having been trained to generate the confidence value in conjunction with the illuminance output, and the rendering step comprises using the alternative rendering approach if the confidence value
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew James Bigos, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Patent number: 11983915
    Abstract: A system for generating one or more images for display, the system comprising an image obtaining unit operable to obtain an image of a user's face, a geometry information unit operable to identify geometry information for the user's face using the obtained image, a lighting information unit operable to obtain lighting information for a virtual environment, a representation generation unit operable to generate a representation of the user's face generated using the obtained lighting information, and an image output unit operable to generate an output image comprising the generated representation and an image of the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Oliver Richard Smith
  • Patent number: 11983310
    Abstract: A gaze tracking system comprising one or more cameras operable to capture one or more images of a side view of one or both of a user's eyes, a cornea identification unit operable to identify the location and size of a cornea in one or more of the captured images, a gaze detection unit operable to determine a direction of the user's gaze in dependence upon the identified location of the cornea in the one or more captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Philip Cockram
  • Publication number: 20230401683
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive an image of a user in an environment; detect an object in the image; perform one of a plurality of user-selectable processes associated with the object, each of the plurality of user-selectable processes being associated with hiding a visual characteristic of the object in the image; and after the one of the plurality of user-selectable processes has been performed, transmit data representing the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Lloyd Preston Stemple, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Andrew William Walker, Christopher William Henderson
  • Publication number: 20230377270
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes: an input unit configured to receive data corresponding to at least part of a mesh, where the at least part of the mesh includes a plurality of vertices, where each vertex corresponds to a location within a virtual space, and a plurality of polygons, where each polygon includes a perimeter comprising three or more lines, where each of the three or more lines intersects two of the plurality of vertices; a generating unit configured to, in a first phase, generate, based on the received data, two or more seed points, where each seed point corresponds to a location within the virtual space, and in a second phase, where the second phase is different from the first phase, generate two or more meshlets, where each meshlet includes a subset of the at least part of the mesh, where each meshlet is generated in dependence upon the location of a respective one of the generated seed points; and an output unit configured to output data corresponding to one or more of the generated meshl
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Daniel Goldman, Anthony William Dann
  • Publication number: 20230360341
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive an image of a user in an environment; determine a region of the environment in the image in which motion of the user is expected, the motion of the user being associated with interactive content experienced by the user; identify one or more attributes of a detected object in the image, a portion of the detected object being within the determined region of the environment; determine a predetermined process associated with the one or more identified attributes; and perform the predetermined process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew William Walker, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Publication number: 20230285862
    Abstract: A content modification system operable to modify video game content in dependence upon the time available to a user of a processing device, the system comprising an input receiving unit operable to receive inputs from one or more devices indicative of an expected duration of a function being performed by a respective device, an available time determination unit operable to determine, in dependence upon received inputs, an amount of time available to a user before the completion of the function of respective ones of the one or more devices, a content modification unit operable to modify video game content in dependence upon the determined amount of time, and a processing device operable to present the modified video game content to the user via a display associated with the processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew William Walker, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Publication number: 20230241503
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method of providing a positioning system for a virtual environment hosted on a platform to enable sharing of content, comprising assigning each location in the virtual environment a unique location ID, receiving a request to retrieve a unique location ID and sharing the unique location ID with an application or an electronic device, wherein each unique location ID is a data string having a standardized format across different platforms comprising a platform identifier, a title identifier, a level identifier and a position identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventor: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Publication number: 20230127471
    Abstract: A method of displaying streamed content includes receiving streamed content from a server, decoding the streamed content, outputting the decoded streamed content for display, and estimating a degree of attention of a user on the streamed content, where the decoding step comprises decoding the content to a quality that is dependent upon the estimated degree of attention of the use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew William Sanders, Justin Lim, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Marina Villanueva Barreiro
  • Patent number: 11593985
    Abstract: A shadow rendering method for an image includes: re-projecting 3D coordinates of image pixels from an image space of the image to points on a 2D shadowmap space; estimating at least one of a horizontal and vertical distribution of the points in the shadow map space; for a flexible scale rasteriser ‘FSR’, updating a horizontal or vertical FSR curve corresponding to a distribution of FSR bins for the shadow map so that the corresponding horizontal or vertical distribution of points per bin is most even; and rendering the shadow map using flexible scale rasterization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Rosario Leonardi
  • Publication number: 20220309742
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel at a viewpoint includes: for a first element of a virtual scene, having a predetermined surface at a position within that scene, evaluating whether to render a pixel corresponding to the first element using at least a first machine learning system having been trained to generate an illuminance output representative of the lighting of the predetermined surface at the position, or using an alternative rendering approach, and rendering the pixel according to which of the at least first machine learning system and the alternative rendering approach are chosen in the evaluating step; where the evaluating step comprises obtaining a confidence value from the at least first machine learning system indicative of the accuracy of the illuminance output, the machine learning system having been trained to generate the confidence value in conjunction with the illuminance output, and the rendering step comprises using the alternative rendering approach if the confidence value
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James Bigos, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Publication number: 20220309745
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel at a viewpoint includes: for a first element of a virtual scene, having a predetermined surface at a position within that scene, evaluating whether to render a pixel corresponding to the first element using a machine learning system having been trained to output a value representative of the lighting of the predetermined surface at the position, or using an alternative rendering approach, and rendering the pixel according to which of the machine learning system and the alternative rendering approach are chosen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James Bigos, Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Publication number: 20220148250
    Abstract: A shadow rendering method for an image includes: re-projecting 3D coordinates of image pixels from an image space of the image to points on a 2D shadowmap space; estimating at least one of a horizontal and vertical distribution of the points in the shadow map space; for a flexible scale rasteriser ‘FSR’, updating a horizontal or vertical FSR curve corresponding to a distribution of FSR bins for the shadow map so that the corresponding horizontal or vertical distribution of points per bin is most even; and rendering the shadow map using flexible scale rasterization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Rosario Leonardi
  • Patent number: 11295482
    Abstract: An encoding system comprising a triangle strip identification unit operable to identify a plurality of triangle strips representing at least a portion of a three-dimensional object mesh, an restart identification unit operable to identify one or more restart indices used to signify the start of a new triangle strip, a structure identification unit operable to identify one or more arrangements of triangles within the triangle strips, a data generation unit operable to generate data comprising a set of indices representing the plurality of triangle strips, information identifying the start of a new triangle strip, and information identifying a structure of a given triangle strip for one or more triangle strips, wherein the information identifying the start of a new triangle strip and the information identifying a structure of a given triangle strip are not provided in the set of indices, and a content encoding unit operable to encode the generated data for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir
  • Publication number: 20220076047
    Abstract: A system for generating one or more images for display, the system comprising an image obtaining unit operable to obtain an image of a user's face, a geometry information unit operable to identify geometry information for the user's face using the obtained image, a lighting information unit operable to obtain lighting information for a virtual environment, a representation generation unit operable to generate a representation of the user's face generated using the obtained lighting information, and an image output unit operable to generate an output image comprising the generated representation and an image of the virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Oliver Richard Smith
  • Publication number: 20210397253
    Abstract: A gaze tracking system comprising one or more cameras operable to capture one or more images of a side view of one or both of a user's eyes, a cornea identification unit operable to identify the location and size of a cornea in one or more of the captured images, a gaze detection unit operable to determine a direction of the user's gaze in dependence upon the identified location of the cornea in the one or more captured images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir, Philip Cockram
  • Publication number: 20210304442
    Abstract: An encoding system comprising a triangle strip identification unit operable to identify a plurality of triangle strips representing at least a portion of a three-dimensional object mesh, an restart identification unit operable to identify one or more restart indices used to signify the start of a new triangle strip, a structure identification unit operable to identify one or more arrangements of triangles within the triangle strips, a data generation unit operable to generate data comprising a set of indices representing the plurality of triangle strips, information identifying the start of a new triangle strip, and information identifying a structure of a given triangle strip for one or more triangle strips, wherein the information identifying the start of a new triangle strip and the information identifying a structure of a given triangle strip are not provided in the set of indices, and a content encoding unit operable to encode the generated data for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir