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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2020
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Kentarou Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Tsubasa Umeki, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Oto, Tokyo, JP;
Shinpei Kameoka, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuteru Fukayama, Tokyo, JP;
Ryu Sannomiya, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An operation device includes an operation unit, a power generation element that generates power according to an operation of the operation unit, a battery that supplies power, and a communication unit that transmits an operation signal corresponding to the operation unit that has been operated. The communication unit transmits the operation signal by use of power supplied from the battery, in a case where a residual quantity of the battery is a predetermined residual quantity or larger. The communication unit transmits the operation signal by use of power generated by the power generation element, in a case where the residual quantity of the battery is smaller than the predetermined residual quantity.