Sony patents method to fix direction drift in handheld controllers
Sony has filed a patent application for a method to correct directional errors in the motion sensors of user-held devices. The system monitors the device's angle and resets it to a standard position when the user interacts with media content in a specific way.
In the filing’s own words
A method of correcting azimuthal drift arising in an inertial measurement unit, IMU, of a peripheral device operable by a user, including: obtaining, from the IMU, an azimuthal angle of the peripheral device; receiving a signal from a sensor, the signal being generated by the sensor in response to user interaction with the media content; in response to receiving the signal, determining whether a value of the azimuthal angle falls within a predetermined range; and adjusting the azimuthal angle to a predetermined value if the value falls within the predetermined range.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of correcting azimuthal drift arising in an inertial measurement unit, IMU, of a peripheral device operable by a user, the method comprising: obtaining, from the IMU, an azimuthal angle of the peripheral device; receiving a signal from a sensor, the signal being generated by the sensor in response to user interaction with media content; in response to receiving the signal, determining whether a value of the azimuthal angle falls within a predetermined range; and adjusting the azimuthal angle to a predetermined value if the value falls within the predetermined range.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- METHOD OF CORRECTING AZIMUTHAL DRIFT ARISING IN AN INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT, AND A DEVICE AND SYSTEM THEREFOR
- Publication number
- US20260319595A1
- Application number
- 19467189
- Filed
- Feb 2, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 23
Classified under
G06F 3/0346 Physics & computingG01B 11/26 Physics & computingG01P 15/08 Physics & computingG06F 3/014 Physics & computingG06F 3/0304 Physics & computingG06T 11/00 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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