IP Library Granted Patent US 12,232,234
Granted Patent B2
US 12,232,234 · App. 18/353,951 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Entertainment apparatus, light emission controlling apparatus, operation device, light emission controlling method and program

Inventors: Akinori Ito (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Morita (Kanagawa, JP); Tomoe Ochiai (Tokyo, JP); Takeshi Igarashi (Kanagawa, JP); Yuji Takeuchi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
H05B47/115G06F3/011H05B47/165A63F13/235
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Patent No.
US 12,232,234
App. No.
18/353,951
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a controller for receiving input from a user, including: a plurality of input elements, each operating to receive respective operative input from a user, the respective operative input being processed and transmitted to an external apparatus for manipulating an application program during execution; a memory having a plurality of sets of profile data stored therein, each set of profile data includes a respective profile ID in association with respective location information indicative of where a respective one of the input elements is located on the controller; a communication unit operating to receive a user-selected one of the plurality of sets of profile data; and a control unit operating to control the controller based on the selected profile data set received from the communication unit.

Claims (10)

1. A controller for receiving input from a user, comprising:

a plurality of input elements, each operating to receive respective operative input from the user, the respective operative input being processed and transmitted to an external apparatus for manipulating an application program during execution;

a memory having a plurality of sets of user-selectable profile data stored therein, each set of user-selectable profile data includes a respective profile ID in association with respective location information indicative of where a respective one of the input elements is located on the controller;

a communication unit operating to receive a user-selected one of the plurality of sets of user-selectable profile data; and

a control unit operating to control the controller based on the selected profile data set received from the communication unit such that one or more of the plurality of input elements are re-configured in response to the user-selected one of the plurality of sets of user-selectable profile data.

2. The controller of claim 1 , wherein each set of profile data includes a respective function for a respective one of the input elements.

3. The controller of claim 2 , wherein each of the plurality of input elements operate, via the control unit, in accordance with the respective function as one or more of directional keys, buttons, operation sticks, touch pads, and keypads.

4. The controller of claim 3 , wherein the respective function for each set of profile data operates, via the control unit, to set the respective input element to operate as one of the directional keys, buttons, operation sticks, touch pads, and keypads.

5. The controller of claim 4 , wherein one of the functions is null such that the respective input element does not operate to receive user input.

6. The controller of claim 4 , wherein the controller is operable such that the user is permitted to change a respective function of a given one of the plurality of input elements by changing the user-selected one of the plurality of sets of profile data to be associated with the respective location information indicative of where the given one of the plurality of input elements is located on the controller.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 17952374 · Sep 26, 2022
Continuation 17297166
Provisional Application 62776499 · Dec 7, 2018
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