Patents by Inventor Yurika MULASE

Yurika MULASE 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: 11980821
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicably connected to a server via a network and acquires, from the server, pieces of provision information including pieces of information regarding game play in other information processing apparatuses. The information processing apparatus operates in at least one mode among a game-play mode in which a user is allowed to play a game and a zoom-out mode in which the pieces of provision information acquired are presented, and, in the zoom-out mode, acquires provision information regarding game play of another user selected on the basis of a predetermined selection condition among the pieces of provision information and presents the acquired provision information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yurika Mulase, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11523171
    Abstract: An information processing device that presents a distributed video selection screen including a plurality of distributed videos as selection candidates to a user, and which, in the distributed video selection screen, presents, in association with each of the plurality of distributed videos, distribution status information related to a distribution status of the distributed video. The information processing device displays, as the distribution status information, a viewer image including a number of unit images, the number being determined according to the number of viewers viewing the corresponding distributed video, in the vicinity of an image representing the distributed video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yurika Mulase, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20220283632
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a virtual space to be displayed on a head-mounted display, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire plural kinds of information relating to the virtual space, an image generation unit configured to generate a displaying image in which the plural components for displaying the plural kinds of information and a controller object corresponding to a controller grasped by a user are disposed in the virtual space, and an output unit configured to cause the head-mounted display to display the displaying image. The image generation unit generates a displaying image in which a component selected by the controller object from the plural components is placed in a selected state, and generates a displaying image in which the display substance in the component in the selected state are updated based on an operation inputted to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yurika MULASE, Yasushi OKUMURA, Kyosuke UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220078510
    Abstract: An information processing device that presents a distributed video selection screen including a plurality of distributed videos as selection candidates to a user, and which, in the distributed video selection screen, presents, in association with each of the plurality of distributed videos, distribution status information related to a distribution status of the distributed video. The information processing device displays, as the distribution status information, a viewer image including a number of unit images, the number being determined according to the number of viewers viewing the corresponding distributed video, in the vicinity of an image representing the distributed video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yurika Mulase, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20220062774
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicably connected to a server via a network and acquires, from the server, pieces of provision information including pieces of information regarding game play in other information processing apparatuses. The information processing apparatus operates in at least one mode among a game-play mode in which a user is allowed to play a game and a zoom-out mode in which the pieces of provision information acquired are presented, and, in the zoom-out mode, acquires provision information regarding game play of another user selected on the basis of a predetermined selection condition among the pieces of provision information and presents the acquired provision information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yurika Mulase, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11231587
    Abstract: A line-of-sight direction detection section 32 detects a direction of a line of sight of a user wearing a head-mounted display. A main image generation section 42 generates a first image regarding main content selected by the user as an item to be displayed on the head-mounted display. A display control section 50 causes the head-mounted display to display a second image regarding content different from the main content for promoting recognition of a given thing or service together with the first image. The display control section 50 controls a manner in which the second image is displayed on the head-mounted display in accordance with the direction of the user's line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Yasushi Okumura, Yurika Mulase
  • Publication number: 20200201048
    Abstract: A line-of-sight direction detection section 32 detects a direction of a line of sight of a user wearing a head-mounted display. A main image generation section 42 generates a first image regarding main content selected by the user as an item to be displayed on the head-mounted display. A display control section 50 causes the head-mounted display to display a second image regarding content different from the main content for promoting recognition of a given thing or service together with the first image. The display control section 50 controls a manner in which the second image is displayed on the head-mounted display in accordance with the direction of the user's line of sight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Masashi NAKATA, Yasushi OKUMURA, Yurika MULASE
  • Publication number: 20190250699
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a virtual space to be displayed on a head-mounted display, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire plural kinds of information relating to the virtual space, an image generation unit configured to generate a displaying image in which the plural components for displaying the plural kinds of information and a controller object corresponding to a controller grasped by a user are disposed in the virtual space, and an output unit configured to cause the head-mounted display to display the displaying image. The image generation unit generates a displaying image in which a component selected by the controller object from the plural components is placed in a selected state, and generates a displaying image in which the display substance in the component in the selected state are updated based on an operation inputted to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yurika MULASE, Yasushi OKUMURA, Kyosuke UCHIDA