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公开(公告)号:US20210178254A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-17
申请号:US17184033
申请日:2021-02-24
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa , Ikuo Yamano , Shinichi Hirata , Yuichi Machida , Yoichi Nishimaki
IPC: A63F13/24 , A63F13/285 , G06F3/0338 , G06F3/01 , G05G5/03
Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, wherein the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, (iii) a sensor operating to measure the force applied by the finger of the user to the movable part and produce a sensing signal therefrom, and (iv) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal, and in response, apply an amount of force to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user, and where the drive signal is a variable dependent on variations in the sensing signal, such that the amount of force applied to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user provides the user with haptic feedback.
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公开(公告)号:US10688388B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-23
申请号:US16079421
申请日:2016-12-07
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Kunihito Sawai , Yuichi Machida
IPC: G05G1/58 , A63F13/98 , A63F13/24 , A63F13/245 , G06F3/038 , G05G1/00 , G06F1/16 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/0346 , G06F3/0338 , A63F13/211
Abstract: An operation apparatus mountable to one hand of a user includes: a first operation section that is located on a front surface side and that can be operated by the thumb of the one hand; a second operation section that is located on a back surface side and that can be operated by a finger other than the thumb; and a first contact surface with which the palm of the one hand makes contact. At least one of the first contact surface and an extension plane of the first contact surface is inclined relative to a virtual plane in such a direction as to be spaced more therefrom in going in a first direction, the virtual plane being defined by the first direction from the front surface side toward the back surface side and a second direction being orthogonal to the first direction and directed from a bottom surface side toward a top surface side.
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公开(公告)号:US11980810B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-14
申请号:US17725863
申请日:2022-04-21
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Ikuo Yamano , Yusuke Nakagawa , Shinichi Hirata , Yuichi Machida , Yoichi Nishimaki
IPC: G06F3/01 , A63F13/20 , A63F13/23 , A63F13/24 , A63F13/285
CPC classification number: A63F13/285 , A63F13/23 , A63F13/24 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/016
Abstract: An operation device has a movable portion movable between a first position and a second position. The movable portion is operated by a user while the operation device is gripped by the user. The operation device receives information identifying a control mode and control information defined for each control mode as an instruction related to control of a tactile force sense, and controls the tactile force sense presented to the movable portion by using the received control information in the control mode identified by the received information.
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公开(公告)号:US11648464B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-16
申请号:US17263761
申请日:2018-08-07
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Takuya Kuji , Yuichi Machida
IPC: A63F13/24 , A63F13/212 , G06F3/01
CPC classification number: A63F13/24 , A63F13/212 , G06F3/01
Abstract: A controller device to be worn on a hand of a user includes a plurality of sensor sections that detect the fingers of the user and a sensor support section for supporting the sensor sections. The sensor support section supports the sensor sections in such a manner that the distance between mutually adjacent sensor sections is changeable.
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公开(公告)号:US10905788B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-02
申请号:US15773750
申请日:2016-07-29
Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Inventor: Yoichi Nishimaki , Shinichi Hirata , Yuichi Machida , Kazuo Miura
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a scent-emanating apparatus including a discharging mechanism which permits a scent substance perceivable by a user together with a marker substance for detection to be discharged outwards, and a sensor to detect the marker substance discharged from the discharging mechanism.
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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.
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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.
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公开(公告)号:US20190308097A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-10
申请号:US16309526
申请日:2017-02-10
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Ikuo Yamano , Yusuke Nakagawa , Shinichi Hirata , Yuichi Machida , Yoichi Nishimaki
IPC: A63F13/285 , A63F13/23 , G06F3/02 , G06F3/01
Abstract: A control system includes a console device having an operating button to be operated by a user and a vibrating mechanism for vibrating the operating button, and a control device for controlling vibrations produced by the vibrating mechanism.
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公开(公告)号:US20190209919A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-11
申请号:US16311774
申请日:2017-05-19
Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa , Ikuo Yamano , Shinichi Hirata , Yuichi Machida , Yoichi Nishimaki
IPC: A63F13/24
CPC classification number: A63F13/24 , A63F13/211 , A63F13/235 , A63F13/285 , G05G5/03 , G05G5/04 , G05G9/047 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/0338 , G06F3/0346
Abstract: An operating device includes a movable part capable of moving between a first position and a second position, with the movable part being capable of operation by the finger of the user gripping the operating device. The operating device includes a regulating part that regulates a range in which the movable part can move, and a control part that determines the amount of regulation in which the movable part can move and provides the regulating part with an instruction to regulate the range in which the movable part can move according to the amount of regulation which has been determined.
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公开(公告)号:US20190041999A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-07
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 , G06F3/0338 , G06F3/01
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.
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