Sony patents camera system that warns gamers to fix their posture
Sony has filed a patent for a system that uses cameras on displays, consoles, or headsets to track a user's head, shoulder, and hand positions. If the system detects that a user is slouching or holding a bad position for too long, it can send a notification to correct their posture or even slow down the game.
In the filing’s own words
System, process, and device configurations are provided for posture position detection and user feedback. A method can include capturing posture position data for the user using at least one imaging device, detecting a change in posture position, and controlling output of a posture position notification to the user in response to the change in posture position. Embodiments can include use of an imaging device on at least one of a display, gaming console, and head mounted gaming unit to capture posture position data. Capturing posture position data can include capturing image data of a reflection of the user for at least one of head position, shoulder position and hand position. Output of posture notifications can include controlling display of a message including a notice to correct user posture, or controlling operation of an electronic game for at least one of slowing game play and restricting game play operation.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: detecting, by a device, a baseline posture reference for a user; receiving, by the device, posture position data for the user, wherein the posture position data is detected by at least one imaging device; detecting, by the device, based at least in part on the posture position data, that one or more posture positions of the user deviates from the baseline posture reference for a first predetermined period of time, wherein detecting that the one or more posture positions of the user deviates from the baseline posture reference includes detecting that the user maintains a first posture position of the one or more posture positions for a second predetermined period of time; and in response to the one or more posture positions of the user deviating from the baseline posture reference for the first predetermined period of time, controlling, by the device, output of a posture position notification to the user, wherein controlling the output of the posture position notification is in response to detecting that the user maintains the first posture position for the second predetermined period of time.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- Systems and methods for posture position detection and user feedback
- Patent number
- US12762727B2
- Application number
- 18490186
- Filed
- Oct 19, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 19
Classified under
G06T 7/70 Physics & computingA63F 13/45 Human necessitiesG06F 3/012 Physics & computingG06V 40/20 Physics & computingMore from Sony in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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