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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2014
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hidehiro Inooka, Tokyo, JP;
Yuta Wakasugi, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Asano, Chiba, JP;
Yuichi Inomata, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotoshi Tokumo, Tokyo, JP;
Michitoshi Kakuta, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Minobe, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a peripheral equipment control device controlling data flow via a peripheral equipment, the peripheral equipment control device including: a peripheral equipment control processor that can control an operation of one or more peripheral equipment; and a bus adapted to connect the peripheral equipment control processor, a main processor, and the one or more peripheral equipment, the main processor being provided outside the peripheral equipment control device to control the operation of the one or more peripheral equipment, in which the bus stores addresses that are referenced by the main processor and the peripheral equipment control processor to access the one or more peripheral equipment, and the bus prohibits access to the peripheral equipment by the peripheral equipment control processor while the main processor is active.