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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2020
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 is provided, 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, 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 as input for the interactive program.