US 12,232,234 B2
Entertainment apparatus, light emission controlling apparatus, operation device, light emission controlling method and program
Akinori Ito, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Morita, Kanagawa (JP); Tomoe Ochiai, Tokyo (JP); Takeshi Igarashi, Kanagawa (JP); and Yuji Takeuchi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/353,951.
Application 18/353,951 is a continuation of application No. 17/952,374, filed on Sep. 26, 2022, granted, now 11,711,878.
Application 17/952,374 is a continuation of application No. 17/297,166, granted, now 11,490,491, issued on Nov. 1, 2022, previously published as PCT/JP2019/046803, filed on Nov. 29, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/776,499, filed on Dec. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0363067 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. A63F 13/24 (2014.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H05B 47/115 (2020.01); H05B 47/165 (2020.01); A63F 13/235 (2014.01)
CPC H05B 47/115 (2020.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); H05B 47/165 (2020.01); A63F 13/235 (2014.09)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.