Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Takashi Enokihara

Takafumi Ogura

Satoshi Mimura

Takuro Sawada

Tetsuro Horikawa

Kojiro Matsuyama

Masahiko Sato

Nobuyuki Kihara

Kenichi Sato

Toshimasa Aoki

Toshikazu Kobayashi

Yoshiyuki Imada

Naoki Matsuoka

Kiyoshi Tsuboi

Shin Kimura

Masatoshi Nakae

Shinya Mikami

Disclosed is an operation device that executes a noise removal process of removing noise from a collected audio signal collected by a microphone. In an acting state where noise generation possibly occurs, the operation device transmits noise generation information indicating that the operation device is in the acting state where noise generation possibly occurs, and changes the details of the noise removal process, according to the noise generation information.

Operation device

Provided is a vibration device that is connected to an information processing apparatus and includes a vibration mechanism that generates a vibration. The vibration device receives a first vibration command for the vibration device from the information processing apparatus, receives a second vibration command for a different type of vibration device from the information processing apparatus in parallel with the first vibration command, and operates the vibration mechanism on the basis of at least one of the first vibration command and the second vibration command. The second vibration command is in a format different from that of the first vibration command. The different type of vibration device is of a type different from that of the vibration device.

Vibration device, information processing apparatus, and vibration control system

Disclosed is an operation device including an interaction member, a microphone, a control circuit, and an audio signal processing circuit. The interaction member is used for interacting with a user. The control circuit periodically acquires scan data indicating the acting status of the interaction member. The audio signal processing circuit executes a noise removal process of removing noise from a collected audio signal collected by the microphone. The control circuit periodically transmits previously acquired scan data to the audio signal processing circuit. The audio signal processing circuit executes the noise removal process by using the scan data transmitted from the control circuit.

Disclosed herein is a controller apparatus including a vibrating body movable within a predetermined movable range thereof, an operating member operated by a user, the operating member being movably operable within a movable range thereof overlapping partially with the movable range of the vibrating body, a reception section configured to receive a vibration instruction designating generation of vibration, a detection section configured to detect a position of the operating member within the movable range thereof, and a control section configured to give vibration to the operating member by controlling a position and vibration of the vibrating body in accordance with the received vibration instruction and the detected position of the operating member. When predetermined conditions are satisfied, the control section controls the vibration of the vibrating body in a manner correcting the vibration designated by the vibration instruction.

Controller apparatus, controller apparatus controlling method, and program

There is provided an information processing system including an inputting apparatus connected to a target apparatus that executes a process according to a manipulation of a user, and a control apparatus connected to the inputting apparatus, in which the control apparatus transmits a plurality of manipulation data prepared in advance and individually indicative of manipulation contents of the user to the inputting apparatus in order one by one, and the inputting apparatus transmits in order one by one the manipulation data transmitted from the control apparatus to the target apparatus at time intervals corresponding to time intervals at which contents of the manipulation are accepted in a case in which the target apparatus executes a process according to a manipulation of the user.

Information processing system

An optical disc apparatus includes an optical pickup for outputting an output signal according to reflected light from an optical disc medium, measures a level of a reflected signal corresponding to reflected light from a medium surface prior to reading of information recorded on the medium, predicts, based on the measured level of the reflected signal, whether or not the reflected signal from the medium surface will satisfy a predetermined detection condition when a focus state is to be detected, and uses a result of the predicting to detect a state where the output signal satisfies the predetermined detection condition as a state where a focus of an objective lens included in the optical pickup is on a signal surface of the medium while relatively moving the objective lens with respect to the medium surface when the information recorded on the medium is to be read therefrom.

Optical disc apparatus, method of controlling the same, and information storage medium

An optical disc apparatus includes an optical pickup for outputting an output signal according to reflected light from an optical disc medium and a comparison signal output unit for outputting a comparison signal indicating whether a level of the output signal is higher than a threshold value, relatively moves an objective lens with respect to a surface of the medium within a predetermined range to measure a maximum level of the output signal, sets a value determined according to the maximum level as a threshold value used by the comparison signal output unit, and measures a level of a reflected signal corresponding to reflected light from each of a plurality of signal surfaces based on the output signal in a time period in which the comparison signal indicates that the level of the output signal is higher than the set threshold value, while moving the objective lens.

A bottom hold circuit generates a bottom hold signal (BH signal) from an RFDC signal from an RF amplifier, and sends it to a comparator. The comparator compares a reference level and the BH signal, and generates an Rfdet signal having H level if the BH signal was found to be lower than the reference level. The Rfdet signal is a signal having H level when a laser spot falls in a data-recorded area on an optical disk, and having L level when in a non-recorded area. When it was detected that Rfdet signal had H level throughout a single turn of the disk, a servo-processing microcomputer controls an optical pickup so as to apply tracking servo. This makes it possible to precisely detect a boundary position between the data-recorded area and non-recorded area. If the optical disk is decentered, the boundary area corresponded to the amount of decentering can successfully be isolated from the data-recorded area.

Optical disk reproducing device and optical disk reproducing method

Optical disk device, in which a tracking adjustment system and sled adjustment system are controlled independently, has offset value acquisition capability, which detects the tracking drive signals output from tracking adjustment system for one lap around optical disk and acquires multiple tracking drive offset values. Such device also has offset representative value computation capability, which computes an offset representative value from multiple tracking drive offset values, as well as an offset value comparison capability, which compares the offset center value in the state in which no tracking adjustment control is done, and the offset representative value, as well as a sled drive decision means capability, which decides the drive of sled adjustment systembased on the comparison result.

Optical disk device with sled drive decision means

Optical disk device, in which tracking adjustment systems and a sled adjustment system are controlled independently, has offset value acquisition capability, which detects drive signals output from tracking adjustment systems and acquires tracking drive offset values. Such disk also has an offset value comparison capability, which compares the acquired tracking offset value and the offset center value in the state in which no tracking adjustment control is done, a search direction acquisition capability, which acquires the search direction of optical pickup from the control instruction that is output from the control system and sled drive decision capability, which decides whether to drive sled adjustment system based on the comparison result and the acquired search direction.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Takashi Enokihara