Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited

Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited

Hogarth Andall

Oliver George Hume

Calum Armstrong

Danjeli Schembri

Philip Cockram

Bee Lay Tan

A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive a first signal indicative of one or more words communicated from a first user of online content to one or more second users of online content; classify the one or more words using the first signal; receive one or more second signals indicative of one or more physiological characteristics of the one or more second users in response to the communicated one or more words; classify the one or more physiological characteristics of the one or more second users using the one or more second signals; determine, based on a classification of the one or more words and a classification of the one or more physiological characteristics of the one or more second users, whether to generate an action signal, the action signal indicating that an action associated with the first user of the online content is to be taken; and when it is determined an action signal is to be generated, generate and output the action signal.

Data processing apparatus and method

A system includes one or more sensors to detect one or more properties for a current user wearing a head-mountable display (HMD), control circuitry to select a user profile from a plurality of stored user profiles in dependence upon one or more of the detected properties, where each stored user profile is associated with a respective user and includes data indicative of one or more reference properties for the respective user, where the selected user profile includes data indicative of at least one reference property that is substantially the same as at least one of the one or more of the detected properties, and processing circuitry to generate at least one of audio and video content for output by the HMD in dependence upon the selected user profile and in response to the selection of the user profile.

Head-mountable display systems and methods

A content-generation guidance system for assisting a user in generating digital content, the system comprising a content analysis unit operable to analyse a first set of pre-existing user-generated content to identify one or more aspects of the content, a correlation identification unit operable to identify a correlation between the one or more identified aspects of the first set of content and user ratings of that content, and a content modification unit operable, when a user is generating new digital content, to identify one or more aspects of the new digital content for modification in dependence upon the identified correlation or correlations.

Content generation system

A method of determining user engagement in a game includes: receiving data from a plurality of remote entertainment devices at a server, the data from a respective entertainment device associating at least a first feature state of the game with an action by a user of that respective entertainment device indicative of a predetermined degree of engagement by the user with the game, aggregating the data received from the plurality of entertainment devices, and determining a level of correspondence between one or more feature states and user actions indicative of the predetermined degree of engagement.

Method and apparatus for determining user engagement in a videogame

A biofeedback sensor attachment for a controller, the biofeedback sensor attachment comprising one or more sensors for obtaining biofeedback information arranged such that at least one sensor is in contact with a user's hand during normal use of the controller, and an output unit operable to output the biofeedback information about measurements made by the one or more sensors.

Sensing apparatus and method

A method of audio processing for an entertainment device operable to communicate with a game controller, the method comprising the steps of generating a source sound for reproduction by a plurality of loudspeakers at a current position where acoustic signals from the plurality of loudspeakers are coincident (hereafter referred to as a 'sweet spot'), requesting that the user steers the sound using the game controller until the user considers the sound to be centered upon them, and interpreting user inputs from the game controller to adjust the output timing of the source sound data signals for reproduction by respective ones of the plurality of loudspeakers in accordance with the user directional inputs so as to move the sweet spot.

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