Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Yoshiyuki Imada

Masashi Kamata

Tai Hirakawa

Takanori Minamino

Kenzo Nishikawa

Yoshihiko Suwa

Takuro Sawada

Arito Mochizuki

Tomoya Kitayama

Phillip Profitt

Dean Sofer

Masatoshi Nakae

Kenichi Sato

Shigetaka Kudo

Toru Ogiso

Takashi Enokihara

Tomomasa Mizuno

Jaewon Bae

Takashi Isa

Yu Sugita

Yasunori Yasuda

Masayuki Ebata

Shinya Mikami

Hirotaka Ishikawa

Kamata Masatosi

An information processing device includes an operation information acquisition section, a setting screen image generation section, and a display controlling section. The operation information acquisition section acquires operation information from a controller. The setting screen image generation section generates a setting screen image for the controller. The display controlling section causes a display device to display the setting screen image for the controller. The setting screen image for the controller includes an image that indicates both a sensitivity and a dead zone of an analog stick provided on the controller in a common scale.

Information processing device for simultaneously adjusting sensitivity and dead zone of a controller

An input device for inputting a user operation includes a data-for-authentication holding unit that holds data for authentication regarding one or more registered users, a fingerprint sensor that accepts fingerprint information of a user, and a fingerprint authentication unit that checks the accepted fingerprint information against the data for authentication regarding the one or more registered users. When the fingerprint authentication unitsucceeds in biometric authentication, a communication unit transmits a network account of the user to an information processing device. The information processing device includes a user authentication unit that checks the received network account against network accounts of registered users held in a registered user information holding unit.

Information processing system, input device, user authentication method, server device, and biometric authentication device

A communication device is configured to wirelessly connect to an external apparatus. The communication device comprises a first communication unit and a control unit configured to control the first communication unit. The first communication unit is configured to operate as one of a master and a slave. When the first communication unit is connected to a given external apparatus, the control unit is configured to control a period during which the first communication unit operates as the slave in response to a communication situation of the first communication unit with a different external apparatus from the given external apparatus.

Communication device and method of controlling a communication unit to operate as a master or a slave to an external apparatus

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

A communication device is configured to wirelessly connect to an electronic apparatus. The communication device comprises a first communication unit and a second communication unit of a same type as that of the first communication unit and a control unit configured to control the first communication unit and the second communication unit. The control unit is configured to acquire a communication situation of the first communication unit with electronic apparatus and another communication situation of the second communication unit with electronic apparatus. The control unit is configured to execute an allocation process for determining a connection destination of an electronic apparatus to the first communication unit or the second communication unit based on the communication situations.

Communication device, connection destination determination method, and wireless connection method

A communication device includes a first communication unit and a second communication unit and is configured to wirelessly connect to an electronic apparatus. The first communication unit and the second communication unit operate in the same communication protocol. The first communication unit is configured to wait for a connection request from the electronic apparatus, and the second communication unit is configured to wirelessly connect to the electronic apparatus from which the first communication unit received a connection request. The first communication unit is configured to wait, where the first communication unit is not connected to the electronic apparatus, for a connection request in a first mode in which a waiting time period is relatively long, and the first communication unit is configured to wait, where the first communication unit is connected to the electronic apparatus, for a connection request in a second mode in which the waiting time period is relatively short.

Communication device, electronic apparatus, and wireless connection method

A communication device comprises a first communication unit that performs switching between transmission operation and reception operation in response to a value of a given bit of a clock, and a second communication unit of a same type as that of the first communication unit. In the communication device, a value of the given bit of the clock of the first communication unit and a value of the given bit of the clock of the second communication unit are synchronized with each other.

Communication device

Disclosed herein is an operating device connected to an information processing device, the operating device including an information transmitting section configured to receive an operation of a user and transmit operation information indicating content of the operation to the information processing device and a control processing section configured to perform control processing determined in advance according to the operation of the user, the information transmitting section transmitting state information indicating an execution state of the control processing to the information processing device.

Operating device

A communication device comprises a first communication unit and a second communication unit of a same type as that of the first communication unit. The first communication unit or the second communication unit is configured to transmit, after wireless connection to an electronic apparatus is established, a waiting instruction signal for instructing the electronic apparatus to enter a state in which the electronic apparatus waits for a connection request.

Disclosed herein is an information processing device that provides an operation signal of an analog stick to a game, including: a conversion processing unit configured to convert a detection value obtained by detection of a movement of a controller into an analog stick signal; and an output processing unit configured to provide the analog stick signal obtained by the conversion to the game. The conversion processing unit includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first signal from a detected angular velocity, a second calculation unit configured to calculate a second signal according to a deviation amount between a direction in which the controller is directed and a reference direction, an addition unit configured to add the first signal and the second signal to generate a motion operation signal, and an analog stick signal generation unit configured to generate an analog stick signal from the motion operation signal.

Information processing device, signal conversion method and program

An acquisition sectionacquires a mouse operation signal. A dead zone adjustment sectionadds a signal part corresponding to a dead zone set to an analog stick, to the mouse operation signal. An analog stick operation signal generation sectiongenerates an analog stick operation signal from the mouse operation signal having been subjected to dead zone adjustment. An output processing sectionprovides the generated analog stick operation signal to a game. The dead zone adjustment sectionadds the signal part corresponding to the dead zone in a direction in which an operation angle of a mouse is maintained.

Information processing apparatus and method of converting operation signal

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that provides an operation signal of an input part of a controller to a game. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition part configured to acquire a detected value of a motion of the controller, a conversion processing part configured to convert the acquired detected value to the operation signal of the input part of the controller, and an output processing part configured to provide the converted operation signal to the game.

Information processing apparatus and operation signal providing method

Provided are a usage state determination apparatus, a usage state determination method, and a program that prevent a determination from being made that a controller is in use due to vibration of a vibrator. A vibration control section causes a vibrator of the controller to vibrate. A detection result acceptance section accepts a detection result of a controller motion. A usage state determination section determines that the controller is in use on the basis of the detection result of the controller motion. When the vibrator vibrates, the usage state determination section places a restriction on the making of a determination that the controller is in use on the basis of the detection result of the controller motion.

Usage state determination apparatus, usage state determination method, and program

A content execution unit executes a game program, and a sharing processing unit manages the control right of a content. A distribution processing unit transmits content image data to a different information processing apparatus. The sharing processing unit includes an information acquisition unit acquiring operation information of a controller from the different information processing apparatus, an operation data provision unit providing the acquired operation information to the game program, a control data acquisition unit acquiring control data for a control target unit of the controller from the game program, and a control data provision unit providing the control data to a controller of the different information processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, control data transmission method and information processing system

A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets on a display screen of a display device; an input acquiring unit that acquires a position of input from a front touch panel or a rear touch panel, which can detect input on the display screen; and a movement control unit that defines as a target to be moved a display target displayed by the display control unit on the display screen at a position corresponding to the position of a first input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, and operative to scroll a display target other than the target to be moved in accordance with a second input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit while keeping the display position of the target to be moved at the position of the first input entry.

Input control device, input control method, and input control program for controlling display target upon receiving input on display screen of display device

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Chiba, Japan

Yoshiyuki Imada