公开(公告)号：US11557020B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-17

申请号：US16970487

申请日：2019-02-11

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor

IPC: G06T3/40 ,  G06V40/18 ,  A61B3/113

Abstract: An eye tracking system for tracking one or more of a user's eyes includes an closed-eye detector operable to detect when a user has closed one or more of their eyes, an eye tracker operable to detect an eye orientation in dependence upon a measured deformation of an eyelid corresponding to the an eye that has been detected to be shut, and an image renderer operable to render a foveated image for display in response to the detected eye orientation.

公开(公告)号：US20220068014A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-03

申请号：US17408850

申请日：2021-08-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

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

IPC: G06T15/80 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06T15/20

Abstract: An image rendering instruction generation system includes an object identification unit operable to identify one or more objects for rendering in a virtual scene, a shader identification unit operable to identify a shader for rendering the identified objects, wherein the shader comprises two or more shading processes corresponding to different levels of detail, a draw call generation unit operable to generate a draw call comprising the identified shader, and a draw call output unit operable to provide the generated draw call to an image rendering system.

公开(公告)号：US20210318753A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-14

申请号：US17272427

申请日：2019-08-30

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Jessica Rose Grant ,  Hans-Werner Gellersen ,  Ludwig Sidenmark

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/0484

Abstract: A processing system for modifying interactive content in dependence upon a user profile includes: a user profile obtaining unit operable to obtain the user profile comprising information about head motion and eye motion for a user, an interactive element identification unit operable to identify interactive elements in displayed content, and a content modification unit operable to modify interactions between a user and one or more of the identified interactive elements in dependence upon the obtained user profile.

公开(公告)号：US11135507B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-05

申请号：US16482506

申请日：2018-01-15

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Simon Mark Benson

IPC: A63F13/28 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/14

Abstract: A head-mountable display (HMD) for use with a processing device, the HMD comprising a display unit for displaying image content to the user, and a directional airflow unit operable to generate a directional airflow in accordance with control data corresponding to an appropriate airflow for content to be displayed on the HMD.

公开(公告)号：US20200279405A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-03

申请号：US16650205

申请日：2018-09-12

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor

IPC: G06T9/20 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/114

Abstract: A data generation system for generating data representing content to be displayed includes: a content dividing unit operable to divide content to be displayed into a plurality of polyhedra and generate polyhedron position information, an intersection detecting unit operable to generate intersection information that describes the intersection of one or more surfaces within the content with the plurality of polyhedra, a polyhedron classifying unit operable to classify each of the polyhedra in dependence upon the intersection information, the classification indicating the properties of the surface within the respective polyhedra, and a data generating unit operable to generate data comprising the polyhedron position information and the polyhedron classification information.

公开(公告)号：US20200246693A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-06

申请号：US16482506

申请日：2018-01-15

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Simon Mark Benson

IPC: A63F13/28 ,  A63F13/52 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F1/16

Abstract: A head-mountable display (HMD) for use with a processing device, the HMD comprising a display unit for displaying image content to the user, and a directional airflow unit operable to generate a directional airflow in accordance with control data corresponding to an appropriate airflow for content to be displayed on the HMD.

公开(公告)号：US20250166368A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-22

申请号：US18943855

申请日：2024-11-11

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Daniel Spong

IPC: G06V10/86 ,  A63F13/60 ,  G06T15/04 ,  G06T19/20

Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining a set of initial graphics assets for a video game, an initial graphics asset comprising at least initial model data for an object, obtaining text data from one or more data sources, inputting at least some of the text data to a machine learning model, generating one or more respective images in dependence on the text data using the machine learning model, and modifying the set of initial graphics assets for the video game in dependence upon one or more of the respective images generated using the machine learning model.

公开(公告)号：US20250148568A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-08

申请号：US18923559

申请日：2024-10-22

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Rosario Leonardi ,  Patrick John Connor

IPC: G06T3/4007 ,  G02B27/01

Abstract: There is provided an image processing method. The method includes receiving an image, receiving gaze data indicative of a gaze location of a user for the image, performing an upscaling process on at least part of the received image to increase quality of the at least part of the received image, and outputting the upscaled image to a display device. Performing the upscaling process includes upscaling a first region of the received image corresponding to the gaze location of the user for the image using a first kernel size and upscaling a second region of the received image using a second kernel size, where the first kernel size is larger than the second kernel size.

公开(公告)号：US20250054464A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18780853

申请日：2024-07-23

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor

IPC: G09G5/10 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06V40/18

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes analysis circuitry to receive captured images comprising at least one eye of a user when viewing display images displayed by a head mounted display “HMD” and detect one or more eye properties for the user in dependence on at least some of the captured images and generate eye information indicative of one or more of the eye properties for the user, control circuitry to control, in dependence on the eye information, image brightness associated with one or more eye tracking calibration images to be displayed to the user, and processing circuitry to output one or more of the eye tracking calibration images for display by the HMD.

公开(公告)号：US11568893B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-31

申请号：US16877619

申请日：2020-05-19

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Patrick John Connor ,  Timothy Bradley ,  Andrew William Walker

IPC: G11B20/10 ,  G11B27/30

Abstract: A method of capturing free viewpoint content at a location includes recording video on each of a plurality of portable video recording devices at the location; each portable video recording device detecting a wireless synchronisation signal transmitted at the location; and each portable video recording device periodically adding a timestamp to its respective recorded video; where the timestamp is responsive to the detected wireless synchronisation signal, thereby enabling synchronisation of a plurality of recorded videos responsive to the timestamps.