Information processing device and controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025123696-A1
Application number	US-202218683777-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 5, 2022
Priority date	Sep 13, 2021
Publication date	Apr 17, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

An information processing device includes an operation information acquisition section, a setting screen image generation section, and a display controlling section. The operation information acquisition section acquires operation information from a controller. The setting screen image generation section generates a setting screen image for the controller. The display controlling section causes a display device to display the setting screen image for the controller. The setting screen image for the controller includes an image that indicates both a sensitivity and a dead zone of an analog stick provided on the controller in a common scale.

First claim

1 . An information processing device capable of accepting operation information from a controller, comprising:
a generation section that generates a setting screen image for the controller; and a display controlling section that causes a display device to display the setting screen image for the controller, wherein the controller includes an analog stick, and the setting screen image includes an image that indicates both a sensitivity and a dead zone of the analog stick in a common scale.

2 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the image has a region having a first axis indicating a magnitude of an operation inputted to the analog stick by a user and a second axis indicating a magnitude of the operation recognized by the information processing device and in which a curve that indicates the dead zone along the first axis and that associates the magnitude of the operation inputted to the analog stick by the user and the magnitude of the operation recognized by the information processing device with each other is disposed.

3 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the image has a region that includes a plurality of concentric circles that indicate a magnitude of the operation of the analog stick from a stationary position in a plurality of stages and in which a first object indicative of the dead zone and a second object indicative of the magnitude of the operation inputted to the analog stick by the user are disposed.

4 . The information processing device according to claim 3 , wherein
the image has the region that includes the plurality of concentric circles and in which a third object that indicates the magnitude of the operation recognized by the information processing device is further disposed.

5 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the setting screen image further includes a fourth object that increases a tendency of a sensitivity of the analog stick more than that in an initial state in response to a user operation in a first direction and decreases the tendency of the sensitivity of the analog stick more than that in the initial state in response to a user operation in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

6 . An information processing device capable of accepting operation information from a controller, comprising:
a generation section that generates a setting screen image for the controller; and a display controlling section that causes a display device to display the setting screen image for the controller, wherein the controller includes an analog stick, and the setting screen image is configured such that both a sensitivity and a dead zone of the analog stick are adjustable simultaneously by a user.

7 . The information processing device according to claim 6 , wherein
the controller further includes a plurality of buttons, and the setting screen image is configured such that both the sensitivity and the dead zone of the analog stick are adjustable through adjacent ones of the buttons.

8 . The information processing device according to claim 7 , wherein
the setting screen image includes an object that suggests a value of the sensitivity or the dead zone of the analog stick, and the generation section slows down, in a case where one of the adjacent buttons on the setting screen image is long pressed, a change of the value suggested by the object in comparison with that in a case where another button is long pressed.

9 . A controller that includes an analog stick, comprising:
a storage section that stores therein set values relating to a sensitivity and a dead zone of the analog stick; a first transmission section that transmits the set values relating to the sensitivity and the dead zone of the analog stick stored in the storage section to an external information processing device; a second transmission section that transmits operation information inputted to the analog stick to the information processing device; and an updating section that acquires the set values relating to the sensitivity and the dead zone of the analog stick and set on a setting screen image for the controller from the information processing device to update the set values stored in the storage section.

Assignees

• Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc

Inventors

• Ogawa Tomohiro
• Imada Yoshiyuki
• Ogiso Toru
• BAE Jaewon
• Mizuno Tomomasa

Classifications

• A63F13/42

  by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle · CPC title

• G06F3/02

  Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials · CPC title

• A63F13/24

  Constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles · CPC title

• G06F3/0338 Primary

  with detection of limited linear or angular displacement of an operating part of the device from a neutral position, e.g. isotonic or isometric joysticks · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title