公开(公告)号：US09911552B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-06

申请号：US14048715

申请日：2013-10-08

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Masaho Morita

IPC: A63F13/06 ,  H01H13/14 ,  A63F13/20 ,  G06F3/0338 ,  G06F3/0354

CPC classification number: H01H13/14 ,  A63F13/06 ,  A63F13/20 ,  A63F13/2145 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F2300/1043 ,  A63F2300/1068 ,  G06F3/0338 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F2203/0381

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an operating device including: a circuit board; a frame arranged on top of the circuit board; a plate-shaped operating member located on top of the frame, the plate-shaped operating member including a surface touched by a user's finger and a touch sensor adapted to detect the position of the user's finger that has touched the surface, the plate-shaped operating member being arranged to be able to move up and down so that the operating member can be pressed by the user; and an elastic member arranged between the frame and operating member to bias the operating member upward.

公开(公告)号：US09910560B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-06

申请号：US14647240

申请日：2013-09-17

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Masakazu Hayashi ,  Kensaku Ishizuka ,  Eiji Yamada ,  Yuki Kobayashi ,  Manabu Nishizawa

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0489

CPC classification number: G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0489 ,  G06F2203/0382 ,  G06F2203/04101 ,  G06F2203/04104 ,  G06F2203/04806 ,  G06F2203/04808

Abstract: An operation button carries out an operation of an electronic apparatus through a key input. A touch panel is a display area of the electronic apparatus and carries out an operation of the electronic apparatus through a touch operation. A display controlling unit displays, in response to the operation of at least one of the operation button and the touch panel, a menu including at least one choice relating to the operation of the electronic apparatus on a display device. Here, the display controlling unit displays a menu to be displayed in response to the operation of the operation button and a menu to be displayed in response to the operation of the touch panel such that the menus include at least one common choice and besides the common choice is disposed in layouts different from each other.

公开(公告)号：US09868057B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-16

申请号：US15071642

申请日：2016-03-16

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga ,  Makoto Ishii

IPC: A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/23 ,  A63F13/843 ,  A63F13/22 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/30 ,  A63F13/20 ,  A63F13/32

CPC classification number: A63F13/23 ,  A63F13/12 ,  A63F13/20 ,  A63F13/22 ,  A63F13/32 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/843 ,  A63F2300/1031 ,  A63F2300/402 ,  A63F2300/403 ,  A63F2300/636

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: executing a game program in response to each of a plurality of operation signals that input to each of the plurality of ports of a controller port from a plurality of operation devices, wherein the controller port comprises the plurality of ports to which the plurality of operation signals are input from the plurality of operation devices via a network; assigning the plurality of the operation devices to the plurality of ports; obtaining connection information indicating a connection status between the plurality of ports and the plurality of operation devices; and changing the assignment of the plurality of operation devices to the plurality of ports depending on the obtained connection status.

公开(公告)号：US09844722B2

公开(公告)日：2017-12-19

申请号：US15016694

申请日：2016-02-05

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Akitsugu Tsuchiya ,  Syunsuke Bamba ,  Yoshihiko Suwa

IPC: A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/20 ,  A63F13/493 ,  H04N5/44

CPC classification number: A63F13/20 ,  A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/493 ,  H04N2005/4442

Abstract: A game system includes a game device used by first and second users and a controller. The game device includes: an association section associating the controller with the first user using the controller; a first process executing section executing a process of a general-purpose function in accordance with first operating information acquired from the controller when the general-purpose function, not associated with the users, executes; and a second process executing section executing a process of a first user function in accordance with second operating information acquired from the controller when the first user function, associated with the first user, executes. The controller includes: first and second operating members associated with the first and second operating information, respectively; an operation receiving section receiving an operation on the operating member; and an operating information outputting section outputting the operating information associated with the operation on operating member to the game device.

公开(公告)号：US20170287446A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15086645

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Andrew Young ,  Jeffrey Roger Stafford

IPC: G09G5/391 ,  G06F3/01

CPC classification number: G09G5/391 ,  G02B27/017 ,  G06F1/3265 ,  G06F3/013 ,  G09G2340/0407 ,  Y02D10/153

Abstract: Foveated rendering based on user gaze tracking may be adjusted to account for the realities of human vision. Gaze tracking error and state parameters may be determined from gaze tracking data representing a user's gaze with respect to one or more images presented to a user. Adjusted foveation data representing an adjusted size and/or shape of one or more regions of interest in one or more images to be subsequently presented to a user may be generated based on the one or more gaze tracking error or state parameters. Foveated image data representing one or more foveated images may be generated with the adjusted foveation data. The foveated images are characterized by level of detail within the one or more regions of interest and lower level of detail outside the one or more regions of interest. The foveated images may then be presented to the user.

公开(公告)号：USD797752S1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-19

申请号：US29475812

申请日：2013-12-06

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Designer： Taku Sugawara ,  Ikuo Kobayashi

公开(公告)号：US09767568B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-19

申请号：US14827697

申请日：2015-08-17

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Shoichi Ikenoue

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/12 ,  G06T7/246

CPC classification number: G06T7/248 ,  G06K9/00362 ,  G06T7/12 ,  G06T2207/10028

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processor including: a depth image acquisition portion adapted to acquire a depth image for an image frame making up the movie, the depth image representing, as a pixel value on an image plane, a subject distance from an imaging device; an edge extraction portion adapted to generate an edge image for the image frame and identify a picture area of a tracked target in the depth image on the basis of an outline of the tracked target represented by tracking results for the image frame at a previous time so as to extract an edge in an area limited on the basis of the picture area; and a tracking section adapted to compare the extracted edge against an outline candidate for the tracked target to find a likelihood so as to estimate the outline of the tracked target and output the outline as tracking results.

公开(公告)号：USD795225S1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-22

申请号：US29557561

申请日：2016-03-10

Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Designer： Tetsu Sumii

公开(公告)号：US09729670B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-08

申请号：US14362231

申请日：2012-12-05

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Hirotsugu Yamamoto ,  Masayuki Chatani

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/6334 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/478

CPC classification number: H04L67/34 ,  H04N21/252 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/25875 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/4122 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/42204 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/4436 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4781 ,  H04N21/63345 ,  H04N21/6582

Abstract: In an information processing system, a speculative DL content information acceptor 324 accepts identification information of content selected by a server. A list generator generates a speculative DL list of the accepted content identification information. Based on the speculative DL list, a DL processor sets the time of start of download of content data and downloads the content data at the set time.

公开(公告)号：US09727777B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-08

申请号：US14857464

申请日：2015-09-17

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION ,  Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Satoshi Ozaki ,  Shoichi Ikenoue

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N5/232 ,  A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/71 ,  G06F21/32

CPC classification number: G06K9/00288 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/71 ,  A63F13/73 ,  G06F21/32 ,  H04L63/0861

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquirer acquiring a shot image of a user; a registered user information holder holding face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication carrying out authentication of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; an information processing section executing information processing on a basis of an authentication result by the face authentication section; a face identification data registration section updating the face identification data on a basis of a face image extracted from the shot image; and a provisionally-registered data holder temporarily holding data relating to the face image when the face image satisfies a predetermined condition. The face identification data registration section determines whether or not to update the face identification data on the basis of the face image by evaluating the data.