Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Greg Corson

John Paul Bates

Howard Berkey

A method is provided for rendering a mixed reality video. The method includes operations for capturing a head mounted display (HMD) game play by a user of a video game that is being executed on a computing system where the HMD game play is being captured from game play point of view (POV). The method further includes operations for identifying, by the computing system, a coordinate location of a camera that has a camera POV used to view the user during the HMD game play. In addition, the method further includes replaying the HMD game play to adjust the game play POV so that it substantially aligns with the camera POV. Moreover, the method includes rendering the mixed reality video by compositing video from the HMD game play after adjusting the game play POV and video from the camera POV. Rendering the mixed reality video also includes removing the background captured in the video from the camera POV so that the user appears partially within a scene of the video game when rendered in the mixed reality video.

VR real player capture for in-game interaction view

A system and method for providing multimedia content through a cable, satellite television or other content server system is disclosed. A server facility which provides multimedia content divides formatted multimedia content into data chunks (e.g., collections of data corresponding to one minute lengths) prior to transmission to a user/subscriber receptor unit, and sends the divided data chunks according to a schedule which permits instantaneous starting and viewing of the multimedia content, such as movies, upon user/subscriber request. The user/subscriber receptor unit includes a cable box, video game device, or the like having a digital video recording capability and at least a memory capacity or disk space sufficient to store a complete unit of media content, such as full-length feature film. The invention does not require intensive interaction between the server facility and the receptor unit, but rather, only requires sending of content signals in the form of an interleaved media stream from the server facility to the receptor unit. Further, the invention requires the use of no more than six times the bandwidth of the original signal for operation.

Delivery of digital content

A system and method for providing multimedia content through a cable, satellite television or other content server system. A server facility which provides multimedia content divides formatted multimedia content into data chunks (e.g., collections of data corresponding to one minute lengths) prior to transmission to a user/subscriber receptor unit, and sends the divided data chunks according to a schedule which permits instantaneous starting and viewing of the multimedia content, such as movies, upon user/subscriber request. The user/subscriber receptor unit includes a cable box, video game device, or the like having a digital video recording capability and at least a memory capacity or disk space sufficient to store a complete unit of media content, such as full-length feature film. The invention does not require intensive interaction between the server facility and the receptor unit, but rather, only requires sending of content signals in the form of an interleaved media stream from the server facility to the receptor unit. Further, the invention requires the use of no more than six times the bandwidth of the original signal for operation.

Method and system for providing instant start multimedia content

Provided is a method and apparatus for virtualizing access to resources in a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Specifically, a resource locally managed by a peer in the P2P network can be published such that other peers can identify the peer managing the resource. Any peer requesting access to the resource of another peer establishes communication to the peer managing the resource. After establishing communication, a proxy of the peer managing the resource can establish a proxy interface. The proxy interface operating on the peer requesting access, permits the peer requesting access to generate command and control data to control the resource. Thus, the peer requesting access believes that it manages the local resource, while in reality, the peer requesting access only has virtualized access to the resource.

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Greg Corson