公开(公告)号：US20190025916A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-24

申请号：US16075267

申请日：2017-02-09

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yasushi Okumura ,  Shinichi Hirata ,  Yoshihisa Takahashi ,  Yoichi Nishimaki ,  Norihiro Nagai ,  Kunihito Sawai ,  Yuichi Machida

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06T13/40

Abstract: A control apparatus is connected to a device for detecting a user's hand motion, controls a motion of a virtual character, and decides, in accordance with a detection result of hand motion by the device, whether the detected motion is a first instruction action or a second instruction action. The first instruction action achieves a match between a hand motion of the character and the user's hand motion. The second instruction action instructs an action different from the user's hand motion. When it is decided, as a result of the decision, that the detected user's hand motion is the first instruction action, the control apparatus achieves a match between the character's hand motion and the detected user's hand motion. When it is decided that the detected user's hand motion is the second instruction action, the control apparatus causes the character to perform an action different from the hand motion.

公开(公告)号：US11335071B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US17261999

申请日：2018-08-02

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yoshinori Ohashi ,  Masaomi Nishidate ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A moving-object position and orientation acquisition section acquires a position and an orientation of a moving object detected by a tracker provided in the moving object to be moved by a user. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space occupied by the moving object in a real world and viewed from a viewpoint of the user. The moving object is configured to be moved by the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.

公开(公告)号：US11198060B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US16942092

申请日：2020-07-29

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yuichi Machida ,  Kunihito Sawai ,  Shinichi Hirata ,  Yoshihisa Takahashi ,  Yoichi Nishimaki ,  Yasushi Okumura ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: A63F13/285 ,  A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/23 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/28 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/235 ,  G06F3/0338

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for causing a device to present a sense of force against depressing of a button in response to receiving an input initiated by the user of a sense-of-force presentation start position in said predetermined movable range, and to store the sense-of-force presentation start position in a memory in response to the input initiated by the user; acquiring a depress amount of said button; receiving the sense-of-force presentation start position from the memory; and instructing the presentation of the sense of force against depressing of said button when said depress amount reaches said sense-of-force presentation start position.

公开(公告)号：US20210174601A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-10

申请号：US17268857

申请日：2018-08-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yoshinori Ohashi ,  Masaomi Nishidate ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H04N13/279

Abstract: A contact determination section determines whether or not there is any contact between a body part of a user and an object in a real world. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space including a portion of the object in the real world, the portion having been contacted by the body part, and that is viewed from a viewpoint of the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.

公开(公告)号：US10850192B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16075265

申请日：2017-02-09

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yuichi Machida ,  Kunihito Sawai ,  Shinichi Hirata ,  Yoshihisa Takahashi ,  Yoichi Nishimaki ,  Yasushi Okumura ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: A63F13/285 ,  A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/23 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/28 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/235 ,  G06F3/0338

Abstract: A control apparatus for a device with one of the left side and the right side of the device fixed as pressed against the palm of a user. The device includes a button that can be depressed within a predetermined movable range and a sense-of-force presentation block for presenting a sensor of force against button depression within a range in which any of the fingers of the user is reachable, the input of a sense-of-force presentation start position in the predetermined movable range being received, a button depressing amount being acquired, and, when the sense-of-force presentation start position is reached, instructing the sense-of-force presentation block to present a sense force against the depressing of the button.

公开(公告)号：US20200312328A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-01

申请号：US16822095

申请日：2020-03-18

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Masaomi Nishidate ,  Isamu Terasaka ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: G10L15/26 ,  H04N5/278 ,  G10L15/22

Abstract: An audio confirmation system includes a voice acquiring section configured to acquire a voice contained in a motion picture; a voice text producing section configured to produce a voice text based on the acquired voice; a determining section configured to determine whether or not the produced voice text and a caption text that is embedded in an image contained in the motion picture correspond to each other; and an outputting section configured to output a result of the determination of the determining section.

公开(公告)号：US09922456B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US15084725

申请日：2016-03-30

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Richard James Forster ,  Andrew James Bigos ,  Joseph Charles Boulter ,  Neil Jonathan Brown ,  Masakazu Suzuoki ,  Masakazu Hayashi ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: G06T17/00 ,  G06T17/10 ,  G06T19/20 ,  A63F13/25 ,  B33Y50/00 ,  A63F13/63 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  G06T15/00

CPC classification number: G06T17/10 ,  A63F13/25 ,  A63F13/63 ,  B33Y50/00 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06T17/00 ,  G06T19/20

Abstract: Aspects of the technology include method of selecting an object from a videogame for 3D printing. The method involves periodically rendering a virtual environment of a videogame for display at a succession of points in time. Information is periodically recorded that enables visual reconstruction of at least part of the virtual environment at a succession of points in time. A predetermined set of values is periodically recorded responsive to the state of the rendered virtual environment at a succession of points in time. The predetermined set of values enables a model of a selected part of the rendered virtual environment to be generated that is configured for 3D printing.

公开(公告)号：US11373379B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-28

申请号：US17268857

申请日：2018-08-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yoshinori Ohashi ,  Masaomi Nishidate ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G06T7/70 ,  H04N13/279 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A contact determination section determines whether or not there is any contact between a body part of a user and an object in a real world. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space including a portion of the object in the real world, the portion having been contacted by the body part, and that is viewed from a viewpoint of the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.

公开(公告)号：US10809825B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-20

申请号：US16075256

申请日：2017-02-09

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Shinichi Hirata ,  Yoshihisa Takahashi ,  Yoichi Nishimaki ,  Yuichi Machida ,  Kunihito Sawai ,  Yasushi Okumura ,  Norihiro Nagai

IPC: G06F3/038 ,  A63F13/214 ,  A63F13/22 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/428 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/26 ,  G06F3/0338

Abstract: A control apparatus is used for a device that is set up assuming that the device is worn on a user's left hand or right hand, acquires given information from the device, and determines whether the device is to be worn on the user's left hand or right hand on the basis of the given information acquired.

公开(公告)号：US10534432B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-14

申请号：US16075267

申请日：2017-02-09

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yasushi Okumura ,  Shinichi Hirata ,  Yoshihisa Takahashi ,  Yoichi Nishimaki ,  Norihiro Nagai ,  Kunihito Sawai ,  Yuichi Machida

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/54 ,  A63F13/215 ,  A63F13/285 ,  A63F13/55 ,  A63F13/428 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/218 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06T13/40

Abstract: A control apparatus is connected to a device for detecting a user's hand motion, controls a motion of a virtual character, and decides, in accordance with a detection result of hand motion by the device, whether the detected motion is a first instruction action or a second instruction action. The first instruction action achieves a match between a hand motion of the character and the user's hand motion. The second instruction action instructs an action different from the user's hand motion. When it is decided, as a result of the decision, that the detected user's hand motion is the first instruction action, the control apparatus achieves a match between the character's hand motion and the detected user's hand motion. When it is decided that the detected user's hand motion is the second instruction action, the control apparatus causes the character to perform an action different from the hand motion.