US 12,138,529 B2
Controller apparatus and control method thereof
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. 17/258,768
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 2, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/026347
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/013038, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-130924 (JP), filed on Jul. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0275905 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A63F 13/215 (2014.01); A63F 13/24 (2014.01); A63F 13/285 (2014.01); A63F 13/54 (2014.01); G08B 6/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 9/02 (2006.01); G05G 5/03 (2008.04)
CPC A63F 13/215 (2014.09) [A63F 13/24 (2014.09); A63F 13/285 (2014.09); A63F 13/54 (2014.09); G08B 6/00 (2013.01); H04R 1/028 (2013.01); H04R 9/02 (2013.01); A63F 2300/1037 (2013.01); A63F 2300/1043 (2013.01); A63F 2300/1081 (2013.01); A63F 2300/6081 (2013.01); G05G 5/03 (2013.01); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A controller apparatus that is held by a hand of a user, the controller apparatus comprising:
a control unit operating to receive waveform information relating to sound emission and waveform information relating to tactile sensation;
a microphone;
a tactile sensation presentation device that presents a tactile sensation to the hand of the user in response to tactile commands by the control unit; and
a speaker operable to produce sound in response to sound commands by the control unit,
wherein during a period in which the user inputs sound from the microphone, the controller operates to:
(i) command a reduction in emission of sound of the speaker by modifying the emission indicated by the waveform information relating to sound emission, and
(ii) generate the command to the tactile sensation presentation device by adding portions of the waveform information relating to sound emission and the waveform information relating to tactile sensation, such that the command to the tactile sensation presentation device relates to both waveform information relating to sound emission and waveform information relating to tactile sensation in a combined manner.