Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Jeansoo Khim

Steven Osman

A method, system and computer program tie physical events to virtual events by analyzing motion information from a computing device of a vehicle or analyzing contextual information from a computing device of a vehicle. Initiation of a virtual event with a display device is timed in response to detecting an impending change in center of mass motion of the user from analyzing the motion information or contextual information. A motion in the virtual event is dynamically associated with subsequent motion information.

Physical event triggering of virtual events

A controller, thumbstick, or system comprising a thumbstick body, a thumbstick shaft coupled to the thumbstick body wherein the thumbstick shaft is configured to retract into the thumbstick body and wherein the thumbstick body and the thumbstick shaft is freely rotatable together around a pivot center within the controller body. In some implementations the thumbstick body included a fluid and the thumbstick shaft displaces the fluid when the thumbstick shaft retracts into the thumbstick body.

Video game controller with collapsible control stick using a fluid

A technique detects when a computer simulation controller such as a computer game controller is idle and, thus, that the simulation (game) should be paused immediately without waiting for an 'AwayFromKeyboard' timer to time out by detecting whether the user has laid the controller down and gone away or simply is not responding.

Method of detecting idle game controller

A method, system and device for controller operation, comprises detecting a change in a state of the controller from a charging state to an operation state. A state of the computing device changes from a controller charging state to a controller operation state in response to detecting the change in the state of the controller. The computing device receives an input from the controller sends a visual indication of the input to a display device. Additionally, a method, system and device for enhanced controller charging, may comprise detecting a change in a controller state from an operation state to a charging state. A computing device determines whether an ignore input is present after detecting the change in controller state and automatically signs out of a user account or automatically goes into a standby mode when the ignore input is not present.

Method for game console operation based on detection of change in controller state

A method, system and computer program tie physical events to virtual events by analyzing motion information from a detecting device or analyzing contextual information, initiating a virtual event with a display device in response to detecting an impending change in center of mass motion of a user from analyzing the motion information or contextual information, and associating a virtual event with subsequent motion information from the detecting device.

A computer simulation controller includes a camera that can be used to image a display on which a computer simulation, controlled by the controller, can be presented. The camera images information on the display, such as display identification (ID), and sends the information to a server streaming the simulation. Based on the information, the server knows to which display to stream the simulation.

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Jeansoo Khim