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Patent No.:

US 11759701 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2020

System and method for generating user inputs for a video game

Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Timothy Edward Bradley, London, GB;

David Erwan Damien Uberti, London, GB;

Assignee:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Matthew B. Dernier, Esq.

Primary Examiner:

Chase E Leichliter

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/213 (2014.01); A63F 13/428 (2014.01); A63F 13/533 (2014.01); A63F 13/655 (2014.01); G06T 7/66 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 18/24 (2023.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/213 (2014.09); A63F 13/428 (2014.09); A63F 13/533 (2014.09); A63F 13/655 (2014.09); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06F 18/24 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/66 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); A63F 2300/308 (2013.01); A63F 2300/6045 (2013.01); A63F 2300/695 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for generating video game inputs is provided. The system comprises an input unit operable to obtain images of a passive non-luminous object being held by a user as a video games controller. The system also comprises an object detector and object pose detector for detecting the object and its respective pose in the obtained images. The pose detector is configured to detect the pose of the object based on at least one of a (i) contour detection operation and (ii) the output of a machine learning model that has been trained to detect the poses of passive non-luminous objects in images. A user input generator is configured to generate user inputs based on the detected changes in pose of the passive non-luminous object and to transmit these to a video game unit at which a video game is being executed. A corresponding method is also provided.

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