公开(公告)号：US20220148253A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-12

申请号：US17452656

申请日：2021-10-28

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Matthew William Sanders ,  Maurizio Cerrato ,  Patrick John Connor ,  Mark Jacobus Breugelmans ,  Jessica Rose Grant

IPC: G06T15/20 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G02B27/01

Abstract: An image rendering system for generating one or more images of a virtual environment, the system comprising an object identifying unit operable to identify one or more objects in the virtual environment, and to identify one or more rendering parameters associated with each object, and a rendering unit operable to render an image comprising one or more of the identified objects in accordance with the corresponding rendering parameter, wherein the rendering parameter specifies a respective minimum level of detail with which the object is to be rendered.

公开(公告)号：US11262590B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US16636441

申请日：2018-07-13

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06K9/32 ,  G06T15/04 ,  G06T15/20 ,  G02B27/01 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/0531 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G02B27/00 ,  H04N13/268 ,  H04N13/25 ,  H04N13/275

Abstract: An image generation system includes a region of interest identifying unit operable to identify a region of interest within a piece of content, the piece of content comprising one or more objects, and an image generation unit operable to generate an image for display comprising one or more of the one or more objects such that objects at a different visual depth to the region of interest are present in the generated image at a lower quality.

公开(公告)号：US11227449B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-18

申请号：US16952266

申请日：2020-11-19

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mark Jacobus Breugelmans ,  Patrick John Connor

IPC: G06T19/20 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06T17/20

Abstract: An image rendering method the steps of, for a view of a virtual model having a locus of interest, performing flexible scale rasterisation with a first bin distribution for a luminance channel, and mapping the results to a first pixel space; performing flexible scale rasterisation with a second bin distribution for chrominance channels, and mapping the results to a second pixel space; and outputting an image based upon the luminance and chrominance results mapped to the first and second pixel spaces; where the second bin distribution includes larger bins than the first bin distribution in a region outside the locus of interest.

公开(公告)号：US20210373657A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US17323059

申请日：2021-05-18

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Matthew William Sanders ,  Mark Jacobus Breugelmans ,  Maria Chiara Monti

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06T5/00

Abstract: A head-mountable display (HMD) system includes at least one detector to detect movement of an eye of a user wearing the HMD, control circuitry to detect saccadic movement of the eye in dependence upon the detected movement of the eye, a display unit and a processor to generate images for display to the user by the display unit, in which the control circuitry is configured to control the processor in response to the detected saccadic movement, in which the control circuitry is configured to control the processor to adjust one or more image quality parameters for one or more of the images to be displayed by the display unit during the detected saccadic movement.

公开(公告)号：US20210236938A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US17154248

申请日：2021-01-21

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Robert Keith John Withey ,  Patrick John Connor

IPC: A63F13/655 ,  G06T9/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06T11/40 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/211 ,  A63F13/26

Abstract: A method of data storage includes associating delta colour compression DCC metadata with one or more tiles of graphics data, selecting one or more such tiles that are uniform in colour and hence can be accurately represented by the DCC metadata for that tile, and replacing some or all of the graphics data in one or more selected tiles with different data.

公开(公告)号：US20200081526A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16560000

申请日：2019-09-04

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Andrew William Walker ,  Richard James Forster ,  Matthew William Sanders ,  Patrick John Connor ,  Jessica Rose Grant ,  Hans-Werner Gellersen ,  Ludwig Sidenmark

IPC: G06F3/01

Abstract: A user input system for controlling a viewpoint within displayed content includes a user profile obtaining unit operable to obtain a user profile having information about head motion and eye motion for a user, an input unit operable to receive user inputs relating to a change in viewpoint within displayed content, the user inputs including the user's head motion, and a viewpoint modification unit operable to modify the viewpoint in the displayed content in dependence upon received inputs and the user profile, where the modification to the viewpoint includes a greater motion than the head motion received as an input.