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：US11943513B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US17413710

申请日：2019-12-13

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Erika Ohno ,  Daisuke Kawamura

IPC: H04N21/25 ,  A63F13/86 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/8549

CPC classification number: H04N21/4821 ,  A63F13/86 ,  H04N21/47217

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that presents a user with a content selection screen including a plurality of types of content as content options and that presents the user with, in the case where one of the content options is selected while the content selection screen is presented, a preview screen including a video which represents a state of a screen watched by another user who is actually using the selected content option.

公开(公告)号：US20240058708A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-22

申请号：US18468164

申请日：2023-09-15

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Yongwoo SHIN ,  Beomeun KIM ,  Sungchang JANG ,  Junhae CHOI

IPC: A63F13/86 ,  G06F3/14 ,  A63F13/497

CPC classification number: A63F13/86 ,  G06F3/1454 ,  A63F13/497

Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and an operating method thereof, and an electronic device and an operating method thereof. A display apparatus includes a display, a communication unit comprising communication circuitry, a memory in which one or more instructions are stored, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: identify whether content displayed on the display is sharable content, control the communication unit to broadcast a signal including state information indicating that the content is sharable content according to the identifying, control the communication unit to receive a content sharing request for sharing the content from an electronic device based on the broadcast signal, and control the communication unit to transmit at least part of the content output to the display to the electronic device, in response to the content sharing request.

公开(公告)号：US20240042324A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-08

申请号：US18488475

申请日：2023-10-17

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC

Inventor： Warren Benedetto

IPC: A63F13/63 ,  A63F13/5375 ,  A63F13/5378 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F13/533 ,  A63F13/25 ,  A63F13/327 ,  A63F13/86

CPC classification number: A63F13/63 ,  A63F13/5375 ,  A63F13/5378 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F13/533 ,  A63F13/25 ,  A63F13/327 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/847

Abstract: A method for communication. The method including displaying game play of a first user playing a gaming application on a display. The method including broadcasting an SSID from a first device over a wireless local area network. The method including pairing the first device and a second device associated with a second user over the wireless local area network. The method including streaming a user interface including information related to the first game play from the first device to the second device. The user interface is streamed concurrent with the game play of the first user, and is configured to complement game play of the first user.

公开(公告)号：US11893863B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-06

申请号：US18129115

申请日：2023-03-31

Applicant: MILESTONE ENTERTAINMENT, LLC

Inventor： Randall M. Katz ,  Gary Dawson

IPC: G07F17/32 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/655 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/828 ,  A63F13/80

CPC classification number: G07F17/329 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/655 ,  A63F13/86 ,  G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/3276 ,  G07F17/3286 ,  A63F13/40 ,  A63F13/80 ,  A63F13/828

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, where they may have images including those of real world personalities, such as sports personalities, is disclosed. In one aspect, a system for electronic game play involves the use of the system wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game, preferably, the virtual players have differing play characteristics, receiving from the user association with a selection of a virtual player, displaying a simulated game using the virtual players, identifying a subset of the virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, and awarding a win to the lottery user if the selected virtual player is in the subset of virtual players. In one aspect, a team may be formed in which real life sports personalities images are utilized.

公开(公告)号：US11878250B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-23

申请号：US17408687

申请日：2021-08-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Maria Chiara Monti ,  Fabio Cappello ,  Matthew Sanders ,  Timothy Bradley ,  Oliver Hume ,  Jason Craig Millson

IPC: A63F13/63 ,  A63F13/215 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/5372 ,  A63F13/5378 ,  A63F13/537 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/424 ,  G06F40/20

CPC classification number: A63F13/63 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/215 ,  A63F13/424 ,  A63F13/537 ,  A63F13/5372 ,  A63F13/5378 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/87 ,  G06F40/20

Abstract: A content modification system comprising a content receiving unit operable to receive content comprising a virtual environment and one or more active elements, an input receiving unit operable to receive inputs from one or more users, an element addition unit operable to generate one or more virtual elements within the virtual environment in response to the received inputs, the virtual elements being unable to be interacted with by the one or more active elements, and a content generation unit operable to generate modified content comprising the virtual environment, the one or more active elements, and the one or more generated virtual elements.

公开(公告)号：US11878245B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-23

申请号：US17869390

申请日：2022-07-20

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Michael Starich ,  Rae Yip

IPC: A63F13/5375 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/86

CPC classification number: A63F13/5375 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/86

Abstract: A method, including: receiving videos generated from sessions of a video game respectively associated to first client devices; for each video, determining location metadata that identifies spatial locations in a virtual environment of the video game at which gameplay depicted by the video occurs, the spatial locations defining a path of the gameplay; during a session of the video game associated to a second client device, determining a current spatial location in the virtual environment of gameplay occurring in the session; filtering the videos based on the current spatial location to identify one or more videos having paths that intersect a region proximate to the current spatial location; presenting, over the network, the identified one or more of the videos at the second client device; continuously tracking updates to the current spatial location and responsively updating the filtering of the videos based on said updates to the current spatial location.

公开(公告)号：US20230415038A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-28

申请号：US18035412

申请日：2020-11-05

Applicant: GOOGLE LLC

Inventor： Collin Irwin ,  Rachel Hausmann

IPC: A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/352 ,  A63F13/86 ,  G06F18/23 ,  G06F18/2413

CPC classification number: A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/352 ,  A63F13/86 ,  G06F18/23 ,  G06F18/24137

Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for generating and displaying aggregated gaming actions based on proposed game inputs provided via each of multiple remote client devices, related to real-time display of gaining content that is based at least in part on interactions of a first user with a remote gaming device. An indication of one or more proposed game inputs is received from multiple respective remote audience users associated with the multiple remote client devices during the real-time display in response to an indicated solicitation. An aggregated game action is generated based at least in part on the multiple proposed game inputs, and an indication of the aggregated game action is provided to the remote gaming device.

公开(公告)号：US11845004B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-19

申请号：US17172042

申请日：2021-02-09

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC

Inventor： Andrew Buchanan Gault ,  Rui Filipe Pereira

IPC: A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/77 ,  A63F13/42 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L65/61 ,  H04L65/70 ,  H04L65/1101 ,  H04L67/52 ,  H04L67/131 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/537 ,  A63F13/795 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04L65/80 ,  A63F13/335 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/71 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/42 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04L67/10

CPC classification number: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/335 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/537 ,  A63F13/71 ,  A63F13/77 ,  A63F13/795 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/87 ,  G06F9/45537 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  H04L65/1101 ,  H04L65/61 ,  H04L65/70 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04L67/131 ,  H04L67/52 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/42 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/70 ,  A63F2300/407 ,  A63F2300/409 ,  A63F2300/51 ,  A63F2300/538 ,  A63F2300/552 ,  G06F2009/45579 ,  G06F2009/45595 ,  H04L67/10

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for cloud gaming. One system includes a plurality of computing resources in one or more data centers. The plurality of computing resources is configured to execute instances of games for client devices that are remote from the one or more data centers. Each instance for an executable game is associated with a processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), and memory for storing video frames generated for the executable game. The video frames are compressed for video game streaming to one or more client devices. The executable game provides video and audio and receives input from said one or more client devices. The input is provided to control interactivity of the executable game during said video game streaming. The cloud gaming system uses said received input from said one or more client devices to drive instances of the executable game when executed by the computing resources of the one or more data centers.

公开(公告)号：US20230388563A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-30

申请号：US18031809

申请日：2021-08-31

Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Inventor： Jie Yang ,  Qi ZHANG ,  Guosheng SUN ,  Gaoyuan ZHANG

IPC: H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/258 ,  A63F13/86

CPC classification number: H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/816 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  A63F13/86

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for inserting digital contents into a multi-view video. The multi-view video may comprise a plurality of views. At least one target region in the plurality of views may be identified. At least one digital content to be inserted may be determined. The multi-view video may be updated through adding the at least one digital content into the at least one target region.