# US 12,109,486 B2 · Computer simulation controller > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,109,486 B2 - Document ID: US12109486B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/522,539 - Filed: 2021-11-09 - Published: 2023-05-11 - Granted: 2024-10-08 - Earliest claimed: 2021-11-09 - Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. - Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. - Inventors: Glenn Black; Arthur Kwun; So Morimoto; Katsuhisa Tadano - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12109486B2 ## CPC - A63F 13/24: Constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles - A63F 13/40: Processing input control signals of video game devices, e.g. signals generated by the player or derived from the environment - G05G 1/02: Controlling members for hand actuation by linear movement, e.g. push buttons - G06F 3/0202: {Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device} - G06F 3/0219: {Special purpose keyboards} - A63F 13/22: Setup operations, e.g. calibration, key configuration or button assignment - A63F 13/245: specially adapted to a particular type of game, e.g. steering wheels - A63F 13/98: Accessories, i.e. detachable arrangements optional for the use of the video game device, e.g. grip supports of game controllers - G05G 1/01: Arrangements of two or more controlling members with respect to one another (double foot control, e.g. for instruction vehicles G05G1/34; mounting units comprising an assembly with two or more pedals G05G1/36) - A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G05G: CONTROL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS INSOFAR AS CHARACTERISED BY MECHANICAL FEATURES ONLY ("Bowden" or like mechanisms F16C1/10; gearings or mechanisms not peculiar to this purpose F16H; speed changing or reversing mechanisms for gearings conveying rotary motion F16H59/00 - F16H63/00) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract An accessibility computer game controller includes a central control button on a round base and peripheral control buttons on the base surrounding the central control button. The peripheral control buttons can have distinct sizes and shapes. An analog stick unit is reciprocatingly engaged with the base and includes a control portion rotatable relative to the base. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A device, comprising: a central control (CC) button operable to send a signal to a computerized apparatus when the computerized apparatus is in communication with the device, the CC button being in the center of a base; plural peripheral control (PC) buttons on the base and surrounding the CC button with azimuthal spacings between adjacent PC buttons being equal around the CC button, each PC button being operable to send a signal to a computerized apparatus when the computerized apparatus is in communication with the device; and a circular light emitting portion around the CC button so that the light emitting portion can be seen from plural directions. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the CC button is round. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the computerized apparatus comprises a computer simulation console. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the computerized apparatus comprises a computer simulation server. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein a first one of the PC buttons comprises an upwardly-sloping outer region having a different slope than an inner region of the first one of the PC buttons. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein at least a first one of the PC buttons viewed from the top comprises a curved inner periphery closest to the CC button and sides flaring outwardly to a curved outer periphery of the first one of the PC buttons, the curved outer periphery being larger than the curved inner periphery. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The device of claim 6, wherein at least a second one of the PC buttons viewed from the top comprises a curved inner periphery closest to the CC button and sides flaring outwardly to a curved outer periphery of the second one of the PC buttons, the curved outer periphery being larger than the curved inner periphery, the second one of the PC buttons being larger than the first one of the PC buttons. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The device of claim 6, wherein the curved inner periphery of the first one of the PC buttons is convex, and wherein at least a second one of the PC buttons viewed from the top comprises a curved inner periphery closest to the CC button and sides flaring outwardly to a curved outer periphery of the second one of the PC buttons, the curved outer periphery being larger than the curved inner periphery, the curved inner periphery of the second one of the PC buttons being concave. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The device of claim 8, wherein the second one of the PC buttons is larger than the first one of the PC buttons. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein at least a first one of the PC buttons viewed from the top comprises a periphery with convex sides between curved inner and outer peripheries. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein at least a first one of the PC buttons viewed from the top comprises a periphery with straight sides between curved inner and outer peripheries. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein at least the first one of the PC buttons is magnetically engaged with the base. ### Claim 13 A device, comprising: a central control (CC) button operable to send a signal to a computerized apparatus when the computerized apparatus is in communication with the device, the CC button being in the center of a base; plural peripheral control (PC) buttons on the base and surrounding the CC button with azimuthal spacings between adjacent PC buttons being equal around the CC button, each PC button being operable to send a signal to a computerized apparatus when the computerized apparatus is in communication with the device; and an outer edge strip on at least one of the PC buttons that overhangs, by extending radially outwardly past the periphery of, a base on which the PC buttons are engaged to facilitate button replacement. ### Claim 14 A device, comprising: a central control (CC) button operable to send a signal to a computerized apparatus when the computerized apparatus is in communication with the device, the CC button being in the center of a base; and plural peripheral control (PC) buttons on the base and surrounding the CC button with azimuthal spacings between adjacent PC buttons being equal around the CC button, each PC button being operable to send a signal to a computerized apparatus when the computerized apparatus is in communication with the device; wherein at least a first one of the PC buttons comprises a continuously downwardly-sloping contour from a convex inner periphery of the first one of the PC buttons to a convex outer periphery of the first one of the PC buttons.