Patents
Gaming patents are legal protections for intellectual property in the gaming industry. They can cover anything from hardware and software to game mechanics and user interfaces. Patents give exclusive rights to their owners, allowing them to license and profit from their creations. In a highly competitive industry, gaming patents provide crucial advantages to developers seeking to capitalize on their ideas and investments. Overall, gaming patents are a necessary aspect of the gaming industry, providing legal protections for creative ideas and technological innovations.
Even if many think it slows down innovation, an idea is free, but securing it is a much more complicated process. As the industry makes progress, it will be important to strike a balance between protecting intellectual property and promoting competition and innovation. Some of the major names in the industry that consistently patent new technologies are Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and Activision.
Stay tuned to eXputer as our talented team scours the web for fresh and interesting patents that hint at the involvement of more advanced technologies in the realm of gaming.
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Sony’s New Patent Wants To Create Unique Games For People On Travel
Sony has patented to suggest and create content, including games for traveling users, based on the time of journey and other factors.
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Sony Patents To Add Modern Accessibility Features To Existing Older Games
Sony has published a new patent that wants to add the modern accessibility features found in AAA entries to existing older titles.
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New Sony Patent Wants To Change The Art Style Of Games
A new Sony patent wants to add a unique accessibility feature that lets gamers change the art style of a game completely through options.
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EA Wants To Use AI for Smoother In-Game Animations With Yet Another Patent
EA has published yet another patent to automate a major part of in-game animations for its projects using AI technology.
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EA Patents Personalized And Animated Coaching System For Its Games
EA has published a new patent that wants to add animated and personalized automated coaching for users to guide them during gameplay.
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Sony Patents A Massive Co-Op Game That Supports Hundreds Of Players In A Theater
Sony has patented a huge co-op gaming experience that can allow hundreds of users to play a single game together in a movie theater.
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Sony Patents Dynamic Audio System That Can Change Music Depending On Gameplay
Sony has recently published a new patent that talks about changing the game audio to reflect certain gameplay moments.
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Sony VR Headsets May Soon Detect Real-Life Objects For In-Game Emulation
Sony has recently published a new patent that can detect real-life objects by the sounds they produce and emulate them in the game.
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Sony May Add A Common Help System That Generates A “Help Map” In Its Games
Sony is seemingly working towards improving its in-game support. Its latest patent talks about a global help system that could be added to most of its games. The patent dubbed…
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EA Wants To Minimize Latency In Multiplayer Games With New Patent
EA has recently published a new patent that wants to minimize the latency and delays present in multiplayer games by improving the technology.
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Square Enix Wants Players To Train In-Game NPCs And Alter Their Behavior
Square Enix has recently published a new patent that wants players to train in-game NPCs to make them more immersive and detailed.
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Tencent Wants To Evolve In-Game Enemy AI Using Concept Of Evolution
Tencent has recently published a patent that seeks to improve the in-game enemy AI using the concepts of evolution to remove the tediousness.
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EA Wants To Automate Emotions Of In-Game Characters Using AI
EA has recently patented a new system that wants to predict and produce the facial expressions of in-game characters using AI.
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EA Could Create In-Game Character Animations Using AI To Replace Motion Capture
EA has patented a system that seeks to generate animations of in-game characters automatically using AI to replace the use of motion capture.
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Activision Wants To Automate In-Game Asset Creation With Existing Resources
Activision has recently published a new patent that discusses automating the asset generation process in development using existing assets.
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Activision Patents To Automate Development Of In-Game Terrain
Activision has recently published a patent that seeks to help developers automate in-game biome and terrain generation process.
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Sony Patents To Let Players Buy “Shares” In Game-Related NFTs
Sony has published a patent that discusses allowing every player, spectator, and other involved parties to buy "shares" of an NFT.
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Microsoft Patents A Modular VR Device That Can Be Personalized By Every User
Microsoft has recently patented a new VR and AR modular device that can seemingly switch between peripherals depending on the users' needs.
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Activision Wants To Create In-Game Characters Without Pre-Defined Limits
Activision has patented "blank" playable characters without any pre-existing stats to make it a more fair competitive experience.
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Blizzard Patents To Let Games Combine Players’ Real-Life Location With In-Game Areas
Blizzard Entertainment has patented an idea to let games combine your real-life locations with their fictional counterparts.
