公开(公告)号：US20230214170A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-06

申请号：US18065981

申请日：2022-12-14

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Calum Armstrong

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  G06F16/683

CPC classification number: G06F3/162 ,  G06F16/683

Abstract: A system for generating outputs to a user in dependence upon audio emitted by one or more audio markers, the system comprising an audio detection unit operable to detect audio emitted by one or more of the audio markers, the audio markers being configured to emit audio in accordance with one or more predetermined conditions, an audio marker locating unit operable to determine one or more properties, including at least a proximity to a user, of audio markers in dependence upon the detected audio corresponding to that audio marker, and a rendering unit operable to output one or more images for display to a user in dependence upon one or more of the determined properties of the one or more audio markers.

公开(公告)号：US20230182008A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US18063111

申请日：2022-12-08

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mark Anthony ,  Nicholas Anthony Edward Ryan ,  Marina Villanueva-Barreiro ,  Calum Armstrong

IPC: A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/285

CPC classification number: A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/285 ,  G06F3/016

Abstract: A system for modifying interactions between a user and displayed content, the system comprising an input detection unit operable to detect one or more inputs from a peripheral device operated by a user, an input characterisation unit operable to characterise the detected one or more inputs, and a content modification unit operable to modify one or more aspects of the user’s interaction in dependence upon the characterisation of the detected inputs.

公开(公告)号：US20230141027A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-11

申请号：US18053062

申请日：2022-11-07

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Maurizio Cerrato ,  Mark Jacobus Breugelmans ,  Calum Armstrong

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  G06F3/01

CPC classification number: G06T15/005 ,  G06F3/013

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes allocation circuitry to allocate a graphical feature for a virtual environment to a respective layer from a plurality of respective layers in dependence upon one or more properties for the graphical feature, where the plurality of respective layers comprise a mobile layer and at least one of a mobile re-projection layer and a static re-projection layer, rendering circuitry to render graphical features allocated to respective different layers of the plurality of respective layers with a different rendering quality, and an output image generator to generate an image for display according to a viewpoint of a virtual camera, where the image includes graphical features allocated to respective different layers of the plurality of layers.

公开(公告)号：US20230117530A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US17962568

申请日：2022-10-10

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Calum Armstrong ,  Nicholas Anthony Edward Ryan ,  Marina Villanueva-Barreiro ,  Mark Anthony

IPC: G06T13/40 ,  A63F13/55 ,  G06T17/10

Abstract: A content generation system operable to generate one or more actions to be performed by an agent, the system comprising an input receiving unit operable to receive two or more actions for the agent, a model generation unit operable to input the actions to a machine learning model so as to generate a trained machine learning model, and an action generation unit operable to generate an action to be performed by the agent, wherein the generation comprises the selection of a latent space interpolation state associated with the trained machine learning model.

公开(公告)号：US20220405047A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17840993

申请日：2022-06-15

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Calum Armstrong ,  Michael Lee Jones

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  H04R1/08 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A system comprising an input device comprising one or more elements operable to generate an output in response to an input from a processing device, a microphone operable to capture one or more audio inputs, an input detection unit operable to detect one or more inputs to the input device from the processing device, and a response generation unit operable to generate a response to the detected input in dependence upon the input and at least a distance between an element associated with the corresponding output and the microphone.

公开(公告)号：US20220339543A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17728173

申请日：2022-04-25

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Calum Armstrong

IPC: A63F13/67 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A system for generating interactive content for a user, the system comprising an environment identification unit operable to identify a virtual environment for interaction by a user, an element arrangement unit operable to generate an arrangement of a plurality of elements within the environment in dependence upon one or more parameters, a content modification unit operable to modify the virtual environment so as to include the plurality of elements in the generated arrangement, and a content rendering unit operable to render one or more images of the modified virtual environment.

公开(公告)号：US20220150658A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-12

申请号：US17522052

申请日：2021-11-09

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Calum Armstrong ,  Marina Villanueva Barreiro ,  Alexei Smith ,  Michael A Jones ,  Fabio Cappello

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  H04S3/00

Abstract: An audio personalisation method for a user, to reproduce an area-based or volumetric sound source, includes the steps of, for a head related transfer function ‘HRTF’ associated with the user, smoothing HRTF coefficients relating to peaks and notches in the HRTF's spectral response, responsive to the size of the area or volume of the sound source; filtering the sound source using the smoothed HRTF for the notional position of the sound source; and outputting the filtered sound source signal for playback to the user.

公开(公告)号：US20220124448A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17502302

申请日：2021-10-15

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Marina Villanueva Barreiro ,  Danjeli Schembri ,  Calum Armstrong ,  Alexei Smith

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  H04R29/00 ,  A63F13/25 ,  A63F13/92

Abstract: An audio personalisation method for a user includes: testing the user with an audio test, the audio test comprising: moving a portable device, comprising a position tracking mechanism and a speaker, to a plurality of predetermined test positions relative to the user's head; when within a threshold distance of a predetermined test position, playing a test sound through the speaker of the portable device; and detecting the test sound using a microphone proximate to each of the user's ears, and associating resulting measurement data with the predetermined test position, where the resulting measurement data derived from the detected test sounds is characteristic of the user's head morphology; for a corpus of reference individuals for whom respective HRTFs have been generated, comparing the measurement data from the user's audio test or a head-related transfer function ‘HRTF’ derived from this measurement data with corresponding measurement data of some or all respective reference individuals in the corpus or HRTFs of some or all respective reference individuals in the corpus; identifying a reference individual whose measurement data or HRTF best matches the measurement data or HRTF from the user's audio test; and using the HRTF of the identified reference individual for the user.