US 11,701,578 B2
Information processing apparatus and control method for controller apparatus
Nicolas Doucet, Yokohama (JP); Hideyuki Uchida, Ibaraki (JP); Naoyuki Saito, Tokyo (JP); Tomohito Ito, Kanagawa (JP); Eric Bailey, Tsukuba (JP); and Masayuki Yamada, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/258,780
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 2, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/026348
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/013039, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. JP2018-132655 (JP), filed on Jul. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0268370 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. A63F 13/24 (2014.01); A63F 13/21 (2014.01); G05G 9/047 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC A63F 13/24 (2014.09) [A63F 13/21 (2014.09); G05G 9/047 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G05G 2009/04762 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus to be connected to a controller apparatus including a push button that moves between a first position and a second position by being pushed by a user with a finger, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a processor operating to execute computer executable software, which causes the processor to carry out actions, including:
acquiring a push-in amount of the push button;
determining whether or not the push-in amount is in a range that excludes the first position and the second position and that is set by two threshold values set between the first position and the second position; and
executing a predetermined process, based on a result of the determination, wherein:
as the predetermined process, when the push-in amount is in the range set by the two threshold values, a determination is made that a game character is grasping a target, and when the push-in amount is not in the range set by the two threshold values, the information processing apparatus executes a process, based on a determination that the game character has currently been unable to grasp the target,
the controller apparatus includes an inclination sensor,
the processor further carries out the action of generating image information to be presented to the user,
the acquiring includes acquiring information regarding inclination of the controller apparatus detected by the inclination sensor, and
the executing includes controlling information regarding an inclination angle of an object with respect to the acquired information regarding the inclination, according to attribute information regarding the object determined by a predetermined method, the control being a process of setting, based on the information regarding the inclination, the inclination angle of the object indicated in the image information.