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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Xiaodong Mao, Foster City, CA (US);
Noam Rimon, Foster City, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A device for interfacing with an interactive program, including: a housing, including, an IR projector for projecting an IR pattern into an interactive environment; a camera for capturing images of the projected IR pattern; an image processor configured to process the captured images for identification of the projected IR pattern; a transceiver configured to communicate with a computing device that executes the interactive program, the transceiver configured to transmit data generated by the image processor to the computing device, such that a position of the device in the interactive environment is determined based on the captured images of the IR pattern, the determined position of the device being utilized to update a state of the executing interactive program at the computing device.