公开(公告)号：US20190046884A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-14

申请号：US16165189

申请日：2018-10-19

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: A63F13/73 ,  H04L29/06 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/44 ,  G06F21/30 ,  G08B5/36 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/79 ,  G06F21/31

CPC classification number: A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F2300/1012 ,  A63F2300/1031 ,  A63F2300/201 ,  A63F2300/208 ,  A63F2300/8088 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/305 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/445 ,  G06F2221/0797 ,  G06F2221/2109 ,  G08B5/36 ,  H04L63/08 ,  H04L63/0876 ,  H04L67/38 ,  H05K999/99

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: establishing communications between a controller for operation by a user and a center device, wherein the center device is operable to execute at least one application program and to produce an output for display that is manipulated in accordance with inputs received by the center device from the controller device; measuring one or more pieces of biometric information of the user via a biometric sensor circuit of the controller; storing one or more pieces of predetermined user information, including authentication key information about the user in a memory element of the controller; and performing authentication of the user by comparing the measured biometric information with the predetermined authentication key information via a control circuit of the controller, where authentication is satisfied when the comparison indicates a predetermined threshold of concurrence between the measured biometric information and the predetermined authentication key information.

公开(公告)号：US11504629B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-22

申请号：US17190808

申请日：2021-03-03

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: A63F9/24 ,  A63F13/00 ,  G06F17/00 ,  A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/212 ,  H04L67/131 ,  G08B5/36 ,  G06F21/30 ,  G06F21/44 ,  A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/31 ,  H04L9/40

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: facilitating communication between one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, and a data processing apparatus running an application program, wherein each controller device includes a plurality of actuation elements that are operable to be manipulated by a respective one of the one or more users to input desired operations to the data processing apparatus for use by the application program; obtaining a respective controller identifier from each of the one or more controller devices; and storing in a memory the controller identifiers in response to the control section in a sequential table, such that each entry in the sequential table includes at least a sequential table entry number and a respective one of the controller identifiers.

公开(公告)号：US20180126278A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15854203

申请日：2017-12-26

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/79 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/30 ,  H04L29/06 ,  A63F13/212 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G08B5/36

CPC classification number: A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F2300/1012 ,  A63F2300/1031 ,  A63F2300/201 ,  A63F2300/208 ,  A63F2300/8088 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/305 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/445 ,  G06F2221/0797 ,  G06F2221/2109 ,  G08B5/36 ,  H04L63/08 ,  H04L63/0876 ,  H04L67/38

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating in respective paired relationships between a network interface and one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; and outputting light emission controls to the paired one or more controller devices, wherein the one or more controller devices each include at least one light emitter that responds to the light emission controls by emitting a selected one of a plurality of colors, outputting a first light emission control to a first of the one or more controller devices that first achieves the paired relationship, and wherein the first light emission control operates to cause a particular first color among the plurality of colors to emit, and outputting a second light emission control to a second of the one or more controller devices that next achieves the paired relationship after the first of the one or more controller devices, and wherein the second light emission control operates to cause a particular second color among the plurality of colors to emit.

公开(公告)号：US11547936B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16521747

申请日：2019-07-25

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Kenichi Imai ,  Shigeru Enomoto ,  Hiroshi Saito ,  Toshimasa Aoki ,  Satoshi Hashimoto

IPC: G06F8/61 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04L67/06 ,  A63F13/48 ,  A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/323 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/35 ,  A63F13/79 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04W88/02 ,  A63F13/61 ,  A63F13/71 ,  A63F13/355

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for downloading application software from a server, including: downloading the application software from the server, where a first application software file contains only a portion of the application software, and a second application software file contains more than the portion of the application software; executing the application software and generating application images based thereon, where execution of the first application software file contains enough of the application software to execute a limited amount of the application software; and displaying the application images on a display screen based on the execution of the application software, where the acquisition unit begins downloading the second application software file in a background process after downloading the first application software file and at least partially during the execution of the first application software file.

公开(公告)号：US10653963B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-19

申请号：US16459756

申请日：2019-07-02

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: H04B7/00 ,  A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G08B5/36 ,  G06F21/30 ,  G06F21/44 ,  A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/31

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving inputs at a service provider server system from a controller over an internet connection; using the inputs in a processing system to produce data based thereon representing desired operations by a user of the controller; and transmitting the data from the service provider server system back over the internet connection.

公开(公告)号：US10137375B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-27

申请号：US15854203

申请日：2017-12-26

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: A63F13/00 ,  A63F9/24 ,  G06F17/00 ,  G06F19/00 ,  A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/212 ,  G08B5/36 ,  G06F21/30 ,  G06F21/44 ,  A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/31 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating in respective paired relationships between a network interface and one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; and outputting light emission controls to the paired one or more controller devices, wherein the one or more controller devices each include at least one light emitter that responds to the light emission controls by emitting a selected one of a plurality of colors, outputting a first light emission control to a first of the one or more controller devices that first achieves the paired relationship, and wherein the first light emission control operates to cause a particular first color among the plurality of colors to emit, and outputting a second light emission control to a second of the one or more controller devices that next achieves the paired relationship after the first of the one or more controller devices, and wherein the second light emission control operates to cause a particular second color among the plurality of colors to emit.

公开(公告)号：US20170106289A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-20

申请号：US15393733

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/79 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/30 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/24

CPC classification number: A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F2300/1012 ,  A63F2300/1031 ,  A63F2300/201 ,  A63F2300/208 ,  A63F2300/8088 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/305 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/445 ,  G06F2221/0797 ,  G06F2221/2109 ,  G08B5/36 ,  H04L63/08 ,  H04L63/0876 ,  H04L67/38

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating with one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; controlling a display for displaying a menu of one or more controller identifiers which are related to the one or more controller devices, respectively, and which are selectable from the menu by the one or more users; storing relation information between one or more user identifiers, which are related to the one or more users, respectively, and the one or more controller identifiers that are selected; carrying out operation inputs transmitted from the selected one or more controller devices as instruction operations for the related one or more user identifiers that correspond to the selected one or more controller identifiers; executing at least one application program and producing an output for display that is manipulated in accordance with the operation inputs; and identifying, from among the stored relation information, one of the user identifiers that corresponds with one of the controller devices when a connection of the one of the controller devices is changed from the wired connection to the wireless connection.

公开(公告)号：US10967273B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US16846846

申请日：2020-04-13

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: H04B7/00 ,  A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G08B5/36 ,  G06F21/30 ,  G06F21/44 ,  A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/31

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving inputs at at least one server from a controller over an internet connection; using the inputs in a processing system to produce data based thereon representing desired operations by a user of the controller; and transmitting the data from the service provider server system back over the internet connection.

公开(公告)号：US10376790B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-13

申请号：US16165189

申请日：2018-10-19

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: H04B7/00 ,  A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/212 ,  G08B5/36 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F21/30 ,  G06F21/44 ,  A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/31

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: establishing communications between a controller for operation by a user and a center device, wherein the center device is operable to execute at least one application program and to produce an output for display that is manipulated in accordance with inputs received by the center device from the controller device; measuring one or more pieces of biometric information of the user via a biometric sensor circuit of the controller; storing one or more pieces of predetermined user information, including authentication key information about the user in a memory element of the controller; and performing authentication of the user by comparing the measured biometric information with the predetermined authentication key information via a control circuit of the controller, where authentication is satisfied when the comparison indicates a predetermined threshold of concurrence between the measured biometric information and the predetermined authentication key information.

公开(公告)号：US20210205709A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17190808

申请日：2021-03-03

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Mariko Hino ,  Satoshi Hashimoto ,  Ken Kutaragi

IPC: A63F13/73 ,  A63F13/235 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G08B5/36 ,  G06F21/30 ,  G06F21/44 ,  A63F13/24 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F21/31

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: facilitating communication between one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, and a data processing apparatus running an application program, wherein each controller device includes a plurality of actuation elements that are operable to be manipulated by a respective one of the one or more users to input desired operations to the data processing apparatus for use by the application program; obtaining a respective controller identifier from each of the one or more controller devices; and storing in a memory the controller identifiers in response to the control section in a sequential table, such that each entry in the sequential table includes at least a sequential table entry number and a respective one of the controller identifiers.