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公开(公告)号:US20220148140A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-12
申请号:US17519840
申请日:2021-11-05
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Philip Cockram , Anthony Dann
Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes executing an initial version of computer game software, the executing step including rendering computer game video images for display; displaying the video images using a head mountable display (HMD); detecting user operation of one or more user controls to perform colour grading adjustments; applying the colour grading adjustments to the video images rendered by the rendering step; and generating colour grading data to be associated with a revised version of the computer game software; in which the executing step and the applying step are performed by different respective data processing apparatus.
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公开(公告)号:US20240295927A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-05
申请号:US18585146
申请日:2024-02-23
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Michael Eder , Jesus Lucas Barcias , Philip Cockram , Lucy Hattersley , Mandana Jenabzadeh
IPC: G06F3/01
CPC classification number: G06F3/016
Abstract: A haptic feedback system includes: a wearable device comprising one or more enveloped regions filled with a non-Newtonian fluid; and one or more force providers configured to provide, to at least one of the enveloped regions, a force that modifies a viscosity of the non-Newtonian fluid to change a resistance to deformation of the wearable device in at least one direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20230241492A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-03
申请号:US18159148
申请日:2023-01-25
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Philip Cockram , Michael Eder
IPC: A63F13/235 , A63F13/22
CPC classification number: A63F13/235 , A63F13/22
Abstract: A method of communication for a plurality of portable communication devices and a videogame console includes installing an app on a first portable communication device, the app adapted to cause the first portable communication device to carry out the steps of identifying a videogame console associated with a user of the first portable communication device, communicating with the videogame console using a first communication protocol supported by the videogame console to receive information from the videogame console, and communicating with one or more of the other of the plurality of portable communication devices using an second, different communication protocol common to the first portable communication device and the one or more other portable communication devices, to relay information from the videogame console.
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公开(公告)号:US20220350151A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-03
申请号:US17728218
申请日:2022-04-25
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Mark Jacobus Breugelmans , Philip Cockram , Calum Armstrong
Abstract: A head mountable display, HMD, system to display images to a user via an HMD comprises an illumination detector to detect an illumination level of an ambient environment around the HMD; an operation detector to detect one or more operations indicative of one or both of: (i) initiation of the HMD being put on by the user; and (ii) initiation of the HMD being taken off by the user; and a controller to control the illumination level of the display images, the controller being configured to generate and apply a temporary illumination level variation to the display images in response to a detection of the one or more operations by the operation detector.
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公开(公告)号:US11270475B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-08
申请号:US17034628
申请日:2020-09-28
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Philip Cockram
Abstract: A system for generating images for display, the system comprising a content identification unit operable to identify content to be displayed, an overlay identification unit operable to identify an overlay to be applied to at least a portion of the content to be displayed, a rasterization rate determining unit operable to determine, in dependence upon the identified overlay, a rasterization rate to be applied to each of two or more areas of at least a frame of the content to be displayed, a rendering unit operable to render the content to be displayed in accordance with the determined rasterization rates, and an overlay applying unit operable to generate an image by applying the overlay to the rendered image.
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公开(公告)号:US20220062773A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-03
申请号:US17459105
申请日:2021-08-27
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Michael Eder , Philip Cockram , Danjeli Schembri , Calum Armstrong , William Michael James Hollingsworth
Abstract: A user input method includes the steps of inputting real events arising from a user acting as a spectator of content, analysing the real events to estimate user sentiment, and modifying an aspect of computer-controlled character behaviour in response to estimated user sentiment.
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公开(公告)号:US20220035449A1
公开(公告)日:2022-02-03
申请号:US17380182
申请日:2021-07-20
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Philip Cockram
Abstract: A gaze tracking system comprising a pupil detection unit operable to detect the location of a pupil in one or more images captured of one or both a user's eyes, a confidence value determination unit operable to determine a confidence value in dependence upon the identified pupil position, the confidence value indicating an expected reliability of the detection of the pupil location, and a processing unit operable to generate, in dependence upon the determined confidence value, one or more outputs to cause the user to modify their pupil location to a location with a higher determined confidence value.
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公开(公告)号:US20250135354A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-01
申请号:US18910233
申请日:2024-10-09
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Philip Cockram
Abstract: A method of memory management for a video game, the method comprising the steps of: loading a first asset into a memory; determining a likelihood of a respective other asset from a plurality of other assets being used within a predetermined period of time from the first asset being loaded into the memory; identifying one or more of the other assets in dependence upon the determined likelihood of a respective other asset; and preloading the one or more identified assets into the memory in response to the first asset being loaded into the memory.
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公开(公告)号:US12210150B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-28
申请号:US17865499
申请日:2022-07-15
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Hogarth Andall , Calum Armstrong , Philip Cockram
Abstract: A system includes one or more sensors to detect one or more properties for a current user wearing a head-mountable display (HMD), control circuitry to select a user profile from a plurality of stored user profiles in dependence upon one or more of the detected properties, where each stored user profile is associated with a respective user and includes data indicative of one or more reference properties for the respective user, where the selected user profile includes data indicative of at least one reference property that is substantially the same as at least one of the one or more of the detected properties, and processing circuitry to generate at least one of audio and video content for output by the HMD in dependence upon the selected user profile and in response to the selection of the user profile.
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公开(公告)号:US11983310B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-14
申请号:US17344312
申请日:2021-06-10
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Sahin Serdar Kocdemir , Philip Cockram
CPC classification number: G06F3/013 , G02B27/0093 , G02B27/0172
Abstract: A gaze tracking system comprising one or more cameras operable to capture one or more images of a side view of one or both of a user's eyes, a cornea identification unit operable to identify the location and size of a cornea in one or more of the captured images, a gaze detection unit operable to determine a direction of the user's gaze in dependence upon the identified location of the cornea in the one or more captured images.
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