Sony patents game controller feature to capture specific gameplay moments
Sony describes a system where a game controller triggers a menu to record specific parts of a video game. The system saves the game footage for a set time and captures it when the player selects an option from the menu.
In the filing’s own words
Methods and apparatus provide for: generating image data for an application to be displayed on an output device; recording the image data generated by the image generating unit; and receiving operation information from an input device, where the recording includes storing the image data for an application for a predetermined period of time up to the point in time at which operation information is received during the receiving operation information from a specific input unit provided in the input device while displaying an application image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: receiving first operation information corresponding to a first user input at a controller communicatively coupled to the information processing system; generating, responsive to receiving the first operation information, first image data corresponding to a menu including a plurality of options to control an operation to capture at least a portion of second image data corresponding to an application executed by the information processing system; receiving second operation information corresponding to a second user input at the controller selecting one of the plurality of options included in the menu; and executing, responsive to receiving the second operation information, an operation corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of options included in the menu.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- Information processing apparatus and inputting apparatus for sharing image data
- Patent number
- US12728349B2
- Application number
- 19071969
- Filed
- Mar 6, 2025
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/42 Human necessitiesA63F 13/20 Human necessitiesA63F 13/30 Human necessitiesG06F 3/02 Physics & computingG06F 40/169 Physics & computingH04L 67/12 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Games & media
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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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