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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2022
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Glenn Black, San Francisco, CA (US);
Celeste Bean, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sergey Bashkirov, Salida, CA (US);
Michael Taylor, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/24 (2014.01); A63F 13/21 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/24 (2014.09); A63F 13/21 (2014.09); A63F 2300/1006 (2013.01); A63F 2300/105 (2013.01); A63F 2300/1068 (2013.01); A63F 2300/1087 (2013.01);
Abstract
A controller apparatus includes two or more balls having a size sufficient for a human to manipulate with a single foot. Three or more bearings support at least one of the balls from below and permit rotation with respect to at least two axes. One or more position encoders are disposed proximate a surface of each of the two or more balls. The encoders are configured to determine a rotational displacement of each of the two or more balls with respect to two or more axes.