公开(公告)号：US10509960B2

公开(公告)日：2019-12-17

申请号：US14565204

申请日：2014-12-09

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Glenn Black

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T19/00 ,  G06K9/46 ,  G06K9/62 ,  G06T11/60

Abstract: A method includes identifying one or more objects in one or more images of real-world scenes associated with a user, adding the identified one or more objects to a list of real-world objects associated with the user, assigning each object in the list of real-world objects to an object class based on object recognition, and providing a notification to the user that a content item has been associated with an object class assigned to one of the objects on the list of real-world objects associated with the user. A computer readable storage medium stores one or more computer programs, and an apparatus includes a processor-based device.

公开(公告)号：US10394444B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-27

申请号：US15022304

申请日：2014-06-19

Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Masaki Higuchi ,  Toru Ogiso ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N21/472 ,  G06F3/0485 ,  A63F13/2145 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G11B27/10

Abstract: An information processing device having a novel interface for allowing a user to change the reproducing position of a video is provided. The information processing device is connected with a touch sensor (16), receives a drag operation performed by the user in a predetermined direction on the touch sensor (16), changes steplessly the reproducing position of the video in accordance with the amount of the drag operation, and starts to reproduce the video from the changed reproducing position.

公开(公告)号：USRE47566E1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-06

申请号：US14919539

申请日：2015-10-21

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yutaka Takeda ,  Payton R. White ,  James E. Marr ,  Stephen C. Detwiler

IPC: H04L12/28 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04L29/12

Abstract: Traversal of a Network Address Translator (NAT) can be facilitated for a mobile device configured to communicate with one or more other devices over a network via one or more wireless access points. A direction of travel can be estimated for the mobile device. One or more wireless access points the mobile device is likely to encounter can be predicted using the an estimated direction of travel for the mobile device. Information regarding behavior of one or more NATs associated with the predicted wireless access point(s) can be predicted. Such information can be stored in such a way that the information is retrievable by one or more other devices or using the information to traverse one or more of the NATs. Alternatively, information can be retrieved regarding behavior of one or more NATs associated with the predicted wireless access points. This information can be used to traverse one or more of the NATs.

公开(公告)号：US10298839B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-21

申请号：US14966726

申请日：2015-12-11

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Kyoko Furumura ,  Takeshi Yamagishi ,  Shinichi Hirata

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  G06T3/00 ,  G06T3/40 ,  H04N13/30

Abstract: When a place where a different panoramic image was captured is present in a direction in which a panoramic image to be displayed is captured, a marker setting unit associates a marker indicating that the different panoramic image is present in said image-captured direction with the panoramic image to be displayed. A mapping processing unit maps, as a texture, the panoramic image to be displayed, with which the marker of the different panoramic image is associated, in a three-dimensional panoramic space. A three-dimensional image generation unit generates a three-dimensional panoramic image when the three-dimensional panoramic space is viewed in a designated visual line direction, with a place where the panoramic image to be displayed is captured as a visual point position. A user interface unit accepts a user's instruction regarding the displayed three-dimensional panoramic image.

公开(公告)号：US10268291B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-23

申请号：US14422080

申请日：2013-08-23

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Tomohiro Ogawa ,  Takashi Hatakeda ,  Yuichi Ando

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0484

Abstract: To make it possible to exclusively treat an operating input to a touch sensor or an operating input to an operating key different from the touch center as an operating input serving as a basis for the performance of processing. A processing executing section performs processing according to an operating input to a touch sensor or an operating input to an operating section. When the operating inputs to both of the touch sensor and the operating section are received, the processing executing section performs only processing according to one of the operating inputs.

公开(公告)号：US10220302B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-05

申请号：US14059326

申请日：2013-10-21

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Gary M. Zalewski ,  Richard Marks ,  Xiaodong Mao

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G09G5/00 ,  G09G5/08 ,  G06F3/033 ,  A63F13/219 ,  A63F13/20 ,  A63F13/40 ,  G06T7/246

Abstract: A controller (110) for controlling an execution of a game program by a processor for enabling an interactive game to be played by a user includes a body (111) having a section to be oriented towards a screen when a progress of a game provided via execution of the game apparatus is displayed upon the screen, and at least one photonically detectable (“PD”) element (e.g. 122, 124, 126, and/or 128) assembled with the body, a position of the photonically detectable element within an image being recordable by an image capture device (112) when the section is oriented at least partly towards the screen, wherein positions of the PD element at different points in time are quantifiable to quantify movement of the body in space.

公开(公告)号：US10200716B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US14750762

申请日：2015-06-25

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Rathish Krishnan ,  Hung-Ju Lee

IPC: H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/593

Abstract: Digital pictures may be encoded and decoded in a way that optimizes parallelization. Selected sections of a digital picture in a first list are encoded independently of encoding any of their neighbor sections. Sections in a second list located to the right of corresponding sections in the first list are encoded using at most the section to their immediate left. Sections in a third list located to the right of a corresponding section in the second list and immediately below a corresponding section in the first list are encoded using at most the sections to the immediate left, immediately above and immediately to its above-right. All other sections of the picture may be encoded in a normal manner.

公开(公告)号：US10186073B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-22

申请号：US14411214

申请日：2013-04-24

Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Masaaki Oka

IPC: G06T15/20 ,  G06T17/05 ,  G06T15/50 ,  G06T19/20

Abstract: Thresholds b1, b2, b3, and b4 are set in the luminance of a raw image. In an image 84a of the lowermost layer, the region in which the luminance is equal to or higher than b1 is left. In an image 84b over it, the region in which the luminance is equal to or higher than b2 is left. In an image 84c over it, the region in which the luminance is equal to or higher than b3 is left. In an image 84d of the uppermost layer, the region in which the luminance is equal to or higher than b4 is left. In each of these images, the alpha value of the other region is set to 0. The images are integrated with the color information of the raw image to generate final slice images. A display image is generated by stacking the generated slice images sequentially from the lowermost layer at predetermined intervals and performing drawing according to the point of sight.

公开(公告)号：US10162426B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-25

申请号：US14766584

申请日：2014-02-13

Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Masanori Nomura ,  Tomohiro Ogawa ,  Satoru Matsuda ,  Takenori Oshima ,  Junichi Naoi

IPC: G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/27 ,  G06F17/24

Abstract: The present invention is intended to realize character string input using two or more devices by an efficient technique. A character string input system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus acquires an operation done on a first input device and acquires a first character string on the basis of the acquired operation. The second information processing apparatus acquires an operation done on a second input device and acquires a second character string on the basis of the acquired operation. The first information processing apparatus outputs an input character string on the basis of the first character string acquired by the time input of the second character string is started by use of the second input device and the second character string.

公开(公告)号：US10133604B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-20

申请号：US14360973

申请日：2012-10-10

Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Takeshi Nakagawa ,  Takashi Hatakeda ,  Akihito Nagata ,  Yumi Kataoka ,  Toru Morita ,  Wataru Kaneko ,  Kousuke Yamaguchi

IPC: G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G06F9/46

Abstract: In response to a selection of a program, a board image display control section sets program related information associated with the selected program in a displayable state. An execution start managing section starts the program in response to reception of a request to start the program, the program related information associated with the program being set in the displayable state. A stop and end managing section ends an already started program when a given condition is satisfied at a time of starting the program by the execution start managing section. A setting of program related information associated with the ended program is maintained in a displayable state even after the program is ended by the stop and end managing section.