公开(公告)号：US11943427B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US17873486

申请日：2022-07-26

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Matthew William Sanders ,  Oliver Hume

IPC: H04N17/00 ,  G06V20/50 ,  G09G3/00 ,  G09G3/20

CPC classification number: H04N17/004 ,  G06V20/50 ,  G09G3/006 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G2320/06 ,  G09G2320/0693

Abstract: A display modification system for use with a display device, including a camera operable to capture images of at least a portion of the display device, an image analysis unit operable to derive the value of one or more parameters associated with the display of images by the display device in dependence upon the captured images, a modification determination unit operable to determine a modification to be applied to a content display process associated with the display device, where the modification includes changes to a content rendering process for generating content to be displayed by the display device and/or one or more display settings associated with the display device, and a modification communication unit operable to transmit information identifying the determined modification to one or both of the display device and a processing device operable to render content for display by the display device.

公开(公告)号：US20200082794A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16559965

申请日：2019-09-04

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Matthew William Sanders ,  Nigel John Williams ,  Richard James Forster ,  Andrew William Walker ,  Jessica Rose Grant

IPC: G09G5/373 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A foveated rendering system for modifying content to be displayed includes a user profile obtaining unit operable to obtain a user profile comprising information about head motion and eye motion for a user, and a foveated rendering unit operable to apply a foveated rendering process to the content to be displayed in dependence upon obtained user profile information.

公开(公告)号：US20210318751A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-14

申请号：US17272425

申请日：2019-08-30

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Richard James Forster ,  Andrew William Walker ,  Matthew William Sanders ,  Jessica Rose Grant ,  Hans-Werner Gellersen ,  Ludwig Sidenmark

IPC: G06F3/01

Abstract: A user profile generating system for generating a user profile for use with a processing device operable to display content includes: a head motion tracking unit operable to identify head motion of the user, an eye motion tracking unit operable to identify eye motion of the user, and a profile generating unit operable to generate a user profile comprising head tracking and eye tracking information for the user, where the generated user profile is used to modify interactions between the user and a processing device.

公开(公告)号：US11016562B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16560000

申请日：2019-09-04

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Andrew William Walker ,  Richard James Forster ,  Matthew William Sanders ,  Patrick John Connor ,  Jessica Rose Grant ,  Hans-Werner Gellersen ,  Ludwig Sidenmark

IPC: G06F3/01

Abstract: A user input system for controlling a viewpoint within displayed content includes a user profile obtaining unit operable to obtain a user profile having information about head motion and eye motion for a user, an input unit operable to receive user inputs relating to a change in viewpoint within displayed content, the user inputs including the user's head motion, and a viewpoint modification unit operable to modify the viewpoint in the displayed content in dependence upon received inputs and the user profile, where the modification to the viewpoint includes a greater motion than the head motion received as an input.

公开(公告)号：US20200372685A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16875104

申请日：2020-05-15

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Matthew William Sanders ,  Rosario Leonardi

IPC: G06T9/00 ,  H04N19/597

Abstract: A content encoding system for encoding content represented by point cloud data, the system comprising a model identification unit operable to identify a model represented by the point cloud data, a coding scheme identification unit operable to identify a coding scheme associated with the identified model, and an encoding unit operable to encode at least a subset of the point cloud data in accordance with the identified coding scheme.

公开(公告)号：US20230033245A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-02

申请号：US17873486

申请日：2022-07-26

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Matthew William Sanders ,  Oliver Hume

IPC: H04N17/00 ,  G06V20/50

Abstract: A display modification system for use with a display device, including a camera operable to capture images of at least a portion of the display device, an image analysis unit operable to derive the value of one or more parameters associated with the display of images by the display device in dependence upon the captured images, a modification determination unit operable to determine a modification to be applied to a content display process associated with the display device, where the modification includes changes to a content rendering process for generating content to be displayed by the display device and/or one or more display settings associated with the display device, and a modification communication unit operable to transmit information identifying the determined modification to one or both of the display device and a processing device operable to render content for display by the display device.

公开(公告)号：US20220068014A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-03

申请号：US17408850

申请日：2021-08-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Maurizio Cerrato ,  Matthew William Sanders ,  Patrick John Connor ,  Mark Jacobus Breugelmans ,  Jessica Rose Grant

IPC: G06T15/80 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06T15/20

Abstract: An image rendering instruction generation system includes an object identification unit operable to identify one or more objects for rendering in a virtual scene, a shader identification unit operable to identify a shader for rendering the identified objects, wherein the shader comprises two or more shading processes corresponding to different levels of detail, a draw call generation unit operable to generate a draw call comprising the identified shader, and a draw call output unit operable to provide the generated draw call to an image rendering system.

公开(公告)号：US10922879B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16517853

申请日：2019-07-22

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Fabio Cappello ,  Matthew William Sanders ,  David Erwan Damien Uberti ,  Andrew William Walker

IPC: G06T17/00 ,  G06T7/00 ,  H04N13/111 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06T7/70

Abstract: A method of generating an image includes receiving a video stream, the video stream having a two-dimensional video of a three-dimensional scene captured by a video camera; determining a mapping between locations in the two-dimensional video of the scene and locations in a three-dimensional representation of the scene, the mapping being determined based on a known parameter of the video camera and a known size of a feature in the three-dimensional scene; generating a three-dimensional graphical representation of the scene based on the determined mapping; determining a virtual camera angle from which the three-dimensional graphical representation of the scene is to be viewed; rendering an image corresponding to the graphical representation of the scene viewed from the determined virtual camera angle, and outputting the rendered image for display.

公开(公告)号：US11880501B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-23

申请号：US17272425

申请日：2019-08-30

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Richard James Forster ,  Andrew William Walker ,  Matthew William Sanders ,  Jessica Rose Grant ,  Hans-Werner Gellersen ,  Ludwig Sidenmark

IPC: G06F3/01

CPC classification number: G06F3/012 ,  G06F3/013

Abstract: A user profile generating system for generating a user profile for use with a processing device operable to display content includes: a head motion tracking unit operable to identify head motion of the user, an eye motion tracking unit operable to identify eye motion of the user, and a profile generating unit operable to generate a user profile comprising head tracking and eye tracking information for the user, where the generated user profile is used to modify interactions between the user and a processing device.

公开(公告)号：US20210001216A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US16906198

申请日：2020-06-19

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Matthew William Sanders ,  Fabio Cappello ,  Timothy Bradley ,  Jessica Rose Grant ,  Maurizio Cerrato

IPC: A63F13/352 ,  G06N3/08 ,  A63F13/573 ,  A63F13/525 ,  A63F13/335 ,  A63F13/327 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: A method of generating video frames for a cloud-based video game includes obtaining, via a communications network, a plurality of frames of a video game rendered at a cloud device; obtaining a player input received at an input device, the input device being used to play the video game, the player input being received in response to the display of at least one of the obtained video frames; inputting at least one of the obtained video frames and the player input to a prediction model; and synthesizing, based on the output of the prediction model, a subsequent frame for output at a display, and outputting the synthesized video frame at the display.