公开(公告)号：US12143595B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17638020

申请日：2020-08-28

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/15 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/423

Abstract: A transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a transmission method, a reception method, and a program by which whether or not a GDR technology is to be used can be suitably controlled according to a situation are provided. An acquisition unit sequentially acquires a frame image drawn in a frame buffer. A GDR usage determination unit determines, on the basis of the frame image or a communication situation, whether or not the GDR is to be used. An encode processing unit encodes, according to the determination as to whether or not the GDR is to be used, the frame image into any one of an ordinary I-frame and data including an I-slice in the GDR. A transmission unit transmits the I-frame or the data including an I-slice.

公开(公告)号：US12141889B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17627253

申请日：2020-04-07

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka ,  Mark Evan Cerny

IPC: G06T1/20 ,  G06F9/48

Abstract: A data processing system includes a GPU and a switching instruction section. The GPU performs in a time-divided manner a process of generating a plurality of pieces of data corresponding to a plurality of applications executed in parallel. In the case where the GPU completes a process of generating one unit of data that is data corresponding to a first application and that is to be handed over to subsequent processing sections, the switching instruction section instructs the GPU to switch to a process of generating an image corresponding to a second application different from the first application.

公开(公告)号：US20220377349A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-24

申请号：US17763339

申请日：2020-09-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: H04N19/146 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/124

Abstract: An attention degree estimation section in a compression coding section of a server estimates an attention degree on the basis of contents indicated by a moving image generated by an image forming section, for each of unit regions produced by dividing a frame plane. A compression coding processing section compression-codes the moving image at a compression rate varied in the frame plane according to a distribution of the attention degrees. A communication section transmits compression-coded data to an image processing apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US20220148133A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-12

申请号：US17435864

申请日：2019-12-25

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: G06T3/40 ,  A63F13/358

Abstract: A substitute image generating section generates a substitute image corresponding to second image data on the basis of first image data. According to success or failure of reception of the second image data, a display control section causes either one of the to-be-displayed image generated on the basis of the second image data and the substitute image generated on the basis of the first image data to be displayed. The substitute image generating section starts the generation of the substitute image corresponding to the second image data based on the first image data before the success or failure of the reception of the second image data is confirmed.

公开(公告)号：US12118691B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US17431609

申请日：2019-12-25

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: G06T3/4053 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06T3/4046 ,  G06T9/00

CPC classification number: G06T3/4053 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06T3/4046 ,  G06T9/00

Abstract: An image transmission/reception system, an image transmission apparatus, an image reception apparatus, an image transmission/reception method, and a program, generate, from image data representing a downscaled image, a higher resolution image than the downscaled image and is more similar to an original image. An encoding process section generates image data representing a downscaled image obtained by downscaling the original image. An additional data generation section generates additional data on the basis of the original image, the additional data being unidentifiable by the image data alone. A data transmission section transmits the image data and the additional data. A data reception section receives the image data and the additional data. An upscaling section generates an upscaled image on the basis of the image data and the additional data, the upscaled image being higher in resolution than the downscaled image. A display control section causes the upscaled image to be displayed.

公开(公告)号：US12112451B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-08

申请号：US17907831

申请日：2021-03-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: G06T17/00 ,  G06T3/4053 ,  G06T9/00 ,  G06T15/00 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/52

CPC classification number: G06T3/4053 ,  G06T9/00 ,  G06T15/005 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06T2210/36

Abstract: A client terminal includes a super-resolution processing section and a display control section. The super-resolution processing section 48 of the client terminal executes a super-resolution process for an inputted image on the basis of scene information indicating a feature in the image. The display control section of the client terminal outputs, to a display panel, the image having undergone the super-resolution process at the super-resolution processing section. The scene information is acquired in a process prior to a super-resolution process for a super-resolution process target image.

公开(公告)号：US12014443B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-18

申请号：US17796346

申请日：2021-01-14

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: G06T1/20 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06T1/60

CPC classification number: G06T1/20 ,  G06F13/4027 ,  G06T1/60

Abstract: A graphics processor having a command processor and a geometry engine and connected to a memory and another graphics processor includes a bus fabric that delivers and receives data to and from the memory connected thereto, and a first interconnect that is connected to the command processor and the geometry engine and that delivers and receives data to and from a command processor and a geometry engine of the other graphics processor. Via a second interconnect, the bus fabric delivers and receives data to and from a bus fabric of the other graphics processor, and is accessibly connected to a memory connected to the other graphics processor.

公开(公告)号：US12005350B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17435857

申请日：2019-12-25

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06T7/246

CPC classification number: A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06T3/40 ,  G06T7/246 ,  A63F2300/538

Abstract: An upscaling unit generates a first to-be-displayed image on the basis of first image data. An alternative image generation unit generates an alternative image by estimating, on the basis of the first image data, a second to-be-displayed image to be generated on the basis of second image data. A display control unit displays, after displaying the image generated on the basis of the first image data, any one of the image generated on the basis of the second image data and the alternative image, depending on whether or not reception of the second image data has succeeded. A transmission control unit controls whether or not to transmit, to a terminal, the second image data on the basis of a possibility of successful estimation of the second to-be-displayed image on the basis of the first image data by the alternative image generation unit.

公开(公告)号：US11954059B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17627899

申请日：2020-10-05

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: G06F13/42 ,  G06F13/40

CPC classification number: G06F13/4068

Abstract: A signal processing chip includes a plurality of signal processing blocks each configured to transmit and receive a signal via a signal line, samples the signal on the signal line that is transmitted and received by the signal processing blocks, and transmits, to another signal processing chip, a data frame including information indicating the signal sampled at a timing of satisfying a predetermined condition.

公开(公告)号：US11789714B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US17795043

申请日：2021-01-27

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Katsushi Otsuka

IPC: G06F9/48 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F8/61 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/38

CPC classification number: G06F8/61 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G06F9/3009 ,  G06F9/3012 ,  G06F9/30036 ,  G06F9/30101 ,  G06F9/30116 ,  G06F9/30123 ,  G06F9/30141 ,  G06F9/30145 ,  G06F9/3867 ,  G06F9/3885 ,  G06F9/461

Abstract: A processing section executes processes concerning a plurality of applications in a time division manner. A Context Switching Direct Memory Access (CSDMA) engine detects a switching timing of an application to be executed in the processing section. When detecting the switching timing, the CSDMA engine saves a context of an application that is being executed in the processing section 46, to a main memory from the processing section, and installs a context of an application to be subsequently executed in the processing section, from the main memory to the processing section, not through a process by software managing the plurality of applications.