公开(公告)号：US20230020322A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17945776

申请日：2022-09-15

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga ,  Nobuaki Tanaka ,  Yasuhiro Watari ,  Toshiharu Sayano ,  Hiromasa Ohkubo

IPC: A63F13/525 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/5255 ,  A63F13/803

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for executing an application program to control a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game in order to manipulate the execution of the application program and to affect the game; setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game during gameplay of the game player, which viewpoints are offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player; and deleting the at least one of the plurality of viewpoints to be the one of the respective positions of the one of the one or more objects when the one of the one or more objects disappears from view due to the gameplay of the game player.

公开(公告)号：US11478703B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-25

申请号：US16594943

申请日：2019-10-07

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga ,  Nobuaki Tanaka ,  Yasuhiro Watari ,  Toshiharu Sayano ,  Hiromasa Ohkubo

IPC: A63F13/525 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/5255 ,  A63F13/803

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling a game include: controlling a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game; and setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player, where at least one of: (i) the setting includes employing watching player conditions regarding each of the plurality of watching players for each of the plurality of viewpoints; and (ii) the setting includes employing one or more predetermined conditions in setting one or more of the respective viewpoints.

公开(公告)号：US11298615B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-12

申请号：US16816656

申请日：2020-03-12

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/426 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/86

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving, at at least one game server, an execution request for execution of a game program from a user terminal over a network and, in response, loading and executing the game program, where the execution request is associated with a play point in a video that shows previously played content of the game program; transmitting the video, by way of at least one of the at least one game server and at least one video server, to the user terminal over the network, where the video is displayed to a user of the user terminal and the execution request is initiated by the user; obtaining, at the at least one game server, certain game situation data that is identified based on the play point associated with the execution request, from a storage unit that stores respective game situation data which indicate respective situations of the game program that are associated with respective play points in the video; starting executing the game program, by the at least one game server, from a situation that is indicated by the certain game situation data obtained; and transmitting game data to the user terminal over the network such that the user may enter into gameplay.

公开(公告)号：US20200206617A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：US16816656

申请日：2020-03-12

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/426

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving, at at least one game server, an execution request for execution of a game program from a user terminal over a network and, in response, loading and executing the game program, where the execution request is associated with a play point in a video that shows previously played content of the game program; transmitting the video, by way of at least one of the at least one game server and at least one video server, to the user terminal over the network, where the video is displayed to a user of the user terminal and the execution request is initiated by the user; obtaining, at the at least one game server, certain game situation data that is identified based on the play point associated with the execution request, from a storage unit that stores respective game situation data which indicate respective situations of the game program that are associated with respective play points in the video; starting executing the game program, by the at least one game server, from a situation that is indicated by the certain game situation data obtained; and transmitting game data to the user terminal over the network such that the user may enter into gameplay.

公开(公告)号：US11944901B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US17692449

申请日：2022-03-11

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/426 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/86

CPC classification number: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/426 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F2300/636

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving, at at least one game server, an execution request for execution of a game program from a user terminal over a network and, in response, loading and executing the game program, where the execution request is associated with a play point in a video that shows previously played content of the game program; transmitting the video, by way of at least one of the at least one game server and at least one video server, to the user terminal over the network, where the video is displayed to a user of the user terminal and the execution request is initiated by the user; obtaining, at the at least one game server, certain game situation data that is identified based on the play point associated with the execution request, from a storage unit that stores respective game situation data which indicate respective situations of the game program that are associated with respective play points in the video; starting executing the game program, by the at least one game server, from a situation that is indicated by the certain game situation data obtained; and transmitting game data to the user terminal over the network such that the user may enter into gameplay.

公开(公告)号：US20220193543A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17692449

申请日：2022-03-11

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/426 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/86

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving, at at least one game server, an execution request for execution of a game program from a user terminal over a network and, in response, loading and executing the game program, where the execution request is associated with a play point in a video that shows previously played content of the game program; transmitting the video, by way of at least one of the at least one game server and at least one video server, to the user terminal over the network, where the video is displayed to a user of the user terminal and the execution request is initiated by the user; obtaining, at the at least one game server, certain game situation data that is identified based on the play point associated with the execution request, from a storage unit that stores respective game situation data which indicate respective situations of the game program that are associated with respective play points in the video; starting executing the game program, by the at least one game server, from a situation that is indicated by the certain game situation data obtained; and transmitting game data to the user terminal over the network such that the user may enter into gameplay.

公开(公告)号：US20200038751A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-06

申请号：US16594943

申请日：2019-10-07

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga ,  Nobuaki Tanaka ,  Yasuhiro Watari ,  Toshiharu Sayano ,  Hiromasa Ohkubo

IPC: A63F13/525 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/5255 ,  A63F13/803

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling a game include: controlling a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game; and setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player, where at least one of: (i) the setting includes employing watching player conditions regarding each of the plurality of watching players for each of the plurality of viewpoints; and (ii) the setting includes employing one or more predetermined conditions in setting one or more of the respective viewpoints.

公开(公告)号：US12251630B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-18

申请号：US18593109

申请日：2024-03-01

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/426 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/86

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for at least one of: (i) displaying a list of images on a display of the user terminal device to the user, where each image within the list of images operates as a respective hyperlink to launch the game from a respective play point in the video of the previously played content of the game program, and (ii) each respective image operates such that the user may activate the respective hyperlink using at least one input device, while the respective image is being displayed to the user, and the activation of the respective hyperlink causes the execution request to include information regarding the respective play point in the video of the previously played content of the game program, and the user clicks on the respective hyperlink while viewing the respective image on the display on which the video showing a play content that has been played by the user himself/herself is being played.

公开(公告)号：US12064690B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-20

申请号：US17945776

申请日：2022-09-15

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga ,  Nobuaki Tanaka ,  Yasuhiro Watari ,  Toshiharu Sayano ,  Hiromasa Ohkubo

IPC: A63F13/525 ,  A63F13/5255 ,  A63F13/803 ,  A63F13/86

CPC classification number: A63F13/525 ,  A63F13/5255 ,  A63F13/803 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F2300/577 ,  A63F2300/6036

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for executing an application program to control a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game in order to manipulate the execution of the application program and to affect the game; setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game during gameplay of the game player, which viewpoints are offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player; and deleting the at least one of the plurality of viewpoints to be the one of the respective positions of the one of the one or more objects when the one of the one or more objects disappears from view due to the gameplay of the game player.

公开(公告)号：US20240198219A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18593109

申请日：2024-03-01

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Toshiya Ikenaga

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/426 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/86

CPC classification number: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/426 ,  A63F13/49 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F2300/636

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for at least one of: (i) displaying a list of images on a display of the user terminal device to the user, where each image within the list of images operates as a respective hyperlink to launch the game from a respective play point in the video of the previously played content of the game program, and (ii) each respective image operates such that the user may activate the respective hyperlink using at least one input device, while the respective image is being displayed to the user, and the activation of the respective hyperlink causes the execution request to include information regarding the respective play point in the video of the previously played content of the game program, and the user clicks on the respective hyperlink while viewing the respective image on the display on which the video showing a play content that has been played by the user himself/herself is being played.