Patents by Inventor Samuel Ian Matthews

Samuel Ian Matthews 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).

  • Game controller with touchpad input
    Patent number: 11554322
    Abstract: A game controller includes a touchpad that a user, viewing a virtual keyboard on a screen, can soft-touch to move a cursor on the screen and then hard-touch to move the cursor and also send location data to a processor for inputting a letter from the virtual keyboard. Machine learning is used to predict a next letter or next word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Cen Zhao, Chung-Hsien Yu, Samuel Ian Matthews
  • MICROPHONE ON CONTROLLER WITH TOUCHPAD TO TAKE IN AUDIO SWIPE FEATURE DATA
    Publication number: 20210200373
    Abstract: A game controller includes a touchpad that a user, viewing a virtual keyboard on a screen, can soft-touch to move a cursor on the screen and then hard-touch to move the cursor and also send location data to a processor for inputting a letter from the virtual keyboard. A microphone on the touchpad can be used to receive voice signals for training a machine learning module to predict a next letter or next word, or to insert special characters/punctuations/graphics such as “smileys” during the swipe, or to indicate a tone of a Chinese character while typing with Chinese Pinyin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Cen Zhao, Chung-Hsien Yu, Samuel Ian Matthews
  • Microphone on controller with touchpad to take in audio swipe feature data
    Patent number: 11048356
    Abstract: A game controller includes a touchpad that a user, viewing a virtual keyboard on a screen, can soft-touch to move a cursor on the screen and then hard-touch to move the cursor and also send location data to a processor for inputting a letter from the virtual keyboard. A microphone on the touchpad can be used to receive voice signals for training a machine learning module to predict a next letter or next word, or to insert special characters/punctuations/graphics such as “smileys” during the swipe, or to indicate a tone of a Chinese character while typing with Chinese Pinyin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Cen Zhao, Chung-Hsien Yu, Samuel Ian Matthews
  • MICROPHONE ON CONTROLLER WITH TOUCHPAD TO TAKE IN AUDIO SWIPE FEATURE DATA
    Publication number: 20210034187
    Abstract: A game controller includes a touchpad that a user, viewing a virtual keyboard on a screen, can soft-touch to move a cursor on the screen and then hard-touch to move the cursor and also send location data to a processor for inputting a letter from the virtual keyboard. A microphone on the touchpad can be used to receive voice signals for training a machine learning module to predict a next letter or next word, or to insert special characters/punctuations/graphics such as “smileys” during the swipe, or to indicate a tone of a Chinese character while typing with Chinese Pinyin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Cen Zhao, Chung-Hsien Yu, Samuel Ian Matthews
  • GAME CONTROLLER WITH TOUCHPAD INPUT
    Publication number: 20200338445
    Abstract: A game controller includes a touchpad that a user, viewing a virtual keyboard on a screen, can soft-touch to move a cursor on the screen and then hard-touch to move the cursor and also send location data to a processor for inputting a letter from the virtual keyboard. Machine learning is used to predict a next letter or next word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Cen Zhao, Chung-Hsien Yu, Samuel Ian Matthews