Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Gregory James Bedwell

Fabio Cappello

Nigel John Williams

Maurizio Cerrato

Rosario Leonardi

Daryl Cooper

Timothy Edward Bradley

Guy Moss

Bernard Joseph Conry

Bernard Conry

A system for improving a discovery process for a virtual environment, the system comprising an environment discovery unit operable to perform a discovery process comprising navigation of the virtual environment and identification of one or more aspects of the virtual environment, a performance analysis unit operable to evaluate the effectiveness of the discovery process, and a discovery update unit operable to modify future operation of the environment discovery unit in dependence upon the evaluation.

System, method and storage medium for identification of one or more aspects of a virtual environment

A data processing apparatus adapted to output recommendation information for modifying source code, includes: compiler circuitry to compile the source code and to output compiled code for the source code, processing circuitry to execute the compiled code, profile circuitry to monitor the execution of the compiled code by the processing circuitry and to generate profile information for the execution of the compiled code, the profile information including one or more statistical properties for the execution of the compiled code, and recommendation circuitry to output the recommendation information for the source code, the recommendation circuitry including a machine learning model to receive at least a portion of the profile information and trained to output the recommendation information for the source code in dependence upon one or more of the statistical properties, in which the recommendation information is indicative of one or more editing instructions for modifying the source code.

Apparatus and method for source code optimisation

A system for modifying data representing a virtual environment includes: an environment navigation unit operable to control navigation within the virtual environment to generate one or more viewpoints within the virtual environment, an environment identification unit operable to identify one or more aspects of the geometry of the virtual environment visible in the one or more viewpoints, a geometry evaluation unit operable to evaluate the visibility of one or more aspects of the geometry based upon the identification for each of one or more viewpoints, and a data modification unit operable to modify one or more elements of data representing the virtual environment.

System and method for modifying content of a virtual environment

A method of evaluating a videogame for a first user includes: performing a calibration test using a physical input device to evaluate at least a first physical input capability of the first user with respect to that physical input device; evaluating at the at least first physical input capability exhibited with respect to that physical input device during reference play of the videogame by one or reference users other than the first user; comparing the at least first physical input capability exhibited during reference play with that of the first user; and providing an evaluation of the videogame's suitability for play by the first user, based upon the comparison.

User adaptation system and method

A data processing system comprises an information input unit operable to receive information relating to computer gameplay of the computer game, an error characterising unit operable to identify indicators of an error in the computer game based upon the received information, a playtest control unit operable to control one or more playtest bots in the computer game to generate playtest data, the playtest data comprising information relating to the identified indicators of an error, an error reporting unit operable to identify errors in dependence upon the playtest data.

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Gregory James Bedwell