Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Teiyu Goto

Ken Kutaragi

Hiroki Ogata

Gary M Zalewski

Akio Ohba

Hiroyuki Segawa

Katsu Saito

Mariko Hino

Kenji Watanabe

Makoto Tanahashi

Tsutomu Asawa

Mitsuyuki Tokusashi

Takayuki Soga

Susumu Ito

Hiroshi Mukawa

Yasuhiro Ootori

Takamasa Araki

Takuro Hibino

Kazusato Tagawa

Hajime Ishihara

Nobutoshi Hamada

Michihiko Sakurai

Akio Funanami

A game controller includes a plurality of LEDs formed on the rear of a case. The plurality of LEDs are arranged two-dimensionally in its layout area. The game controller has a plurality of PWM control units which are provided inside the case and control the lighting of the plurality of LEDs, respectively. The PWM control units control the lighting of the LEDs based on a control signal from a game apparatus. The game apparatus acquires a captured image of the game controller, and acquires the position of the game controller in the captured image based on the positions of the LEDs in the captured image.

Game controller using a plurality of light-emitting elements

An operating device used in a game machine for playing a television game includes a main body and first and second finger-manipulatable operating units positioned symmetrically on the main body. The operating device may include first and second grips projecting at spaced positions from the main body, with the first and second operating units being positioned adjacent the first and second grips. The operating device may further include vibration-imparting units for imparting vibrations to the user's hands.

Operating device for game machine

Game controller with pulse width modulation position detection

Game controller

The present invention provides a game system using LEDs in a controller. In a game system of the present invention, an image pickup apparatus captures the controller. The controller includes multiple input units for making an operation input to advance a game, and multiple LEDs for indicating a controller number set for the controller in a game application executed. A game apparatus accepts an operation input provided to the controller and reflects the operation input in the processing of a game application, acquires a captured image from the image pickup apparatus, acquires the position of the controller in the captured image based on the position of the LED in the captured image and reflects the acquired position information in the processing of the game application, and generates an image signal showing the result of application processing performed based on the operation input and acquired position information.

Entertainment system

Arithmetic and control unit

Disclosed herein is a head mounted display including: an eyeglasses frame-like frame to be mounted onto an observer's head; and two image display devices, each of the image display devices including an image generating device, and light guide means which is mounted to the image generating device, which as a whole is located on the side of the center of an observer's face relative to the image generating device, on which beams emitted from the image generating device are incident, through which the beams are guided, and from which the beams are emitted toward an observer's pupil.

Head mounted display

A disk apparatus is provided that includes an apparatus body including a driving section for rotating a disk, an information reading/writing section, and a control section for controlling the driving section and the information reading/writing section. The disk apparatus also includes a housing accommodating the apparatus body and including a housing body having an accommodating recess formed at a position thereof corresponding to the driving section and the information reading/writing section for accommodating the disk therein, and a lid member supported for pivotal motion on the apparatus body for closing up the accommodating recess. The accommodating recess has a convex portion formed in a projecting manner on a bottom face thereof such that the convex portion surrounds the disk mounted around a rotary shaft of the driving section A space which is formed by the convex portion surrounds the disk having a circular shape and a polygonal shape combined.

Disk apparatus with a recess on a disk-accommodating portion

Video game controller front face

In a disk containing body including a containing section () for containing a disk (D) formed by mounting a disk main body in a cabinet and a lid section () for closing a disk receiving aperture of the containing section (), the containing section () has a rising wall () that surrounds at least part of the outer periphery of the disk (D) and rises from the bottom surface of the containing section (), a pair of anchoring claws () projecting from the lateral surface of the rising wall () toward each other with the disk (D) interposed between them so as to press the contained disk (D) from the aperture side of the containing section () toward the bottom surface thereof and a plurality of supporting projections () formed at the opposite sides of the line (A) connecting the pair of anchoring claws () and adapted to support the disk (D) at the bottom surface thereof.

Disk containing body and information providing body

An entertainment device or other electronic device having an outward shape improved in functionality compared with that in the related art are provided. The electronic device includes a main housing that is formed in an approximately elliptical cylinder form, and disposed in a such a manner that a longitudinal direction is approximately horizontal to a setting surface, and has medium insertion ports for inserting a portable information storage medium such as an optical disk, and an approximately boxlike base portion attached to a lower portion of the main housing.

Electronic device

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Teiyu Goto