Sony patents cloud gaming that adjusts to your brain state
Sony has been granted a patent for a cloud gaming system that uses machine learning to track a player's cognitive state. It combines data from input devices and game performance metrics to create a profile of how the player is currently thinking or feeling. The system then uses this profile to dynamically change the game content and allocate computing resources.
In the filing’s own words
A computer-implemented system and method of providing a personalized experience to players of applications delivering a virtual environment, such as a virtual game world. A cloud-deployed machine learning (ML) model implements a player state service to gather data from input devices and historical data, such as past game-play, to infer physiological and behavioral data (a player state vector) which may be used to represent the current cognitive state of the player.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method of providing dynamic content in a virtual environment of a video game session hosted on a cloud platform, comprising: executing, by a game engine of the cloud platform, the video game session thereby providing the virtual environment to a user of the video game session; estimating a cognitive state of the user by: receiving sensor data from user peripherals, the sensor data indicative of behavioral or physiological signals associated with the user; and receiving operational data associated with the video game session, the operational data comprising a session time, a latency time, a geographic region of the user, or any combination thereof; generating a state vector from the sensor data and the operational data, the state vector representing the cognitive state; and generating content in the virtual environment based on the state vector, wherein generating content in the virtual environment based on the state vector includes allocating one or more computational resources based on the state vector.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited)
- Official title
- Systems and methods for providing personalized experiences in virtual environments
- Patent number
- US12728357B2
- Application number
- 18583116
- Filed
- Feb 21, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/67 Human necessitiesA63F 13/211 Human necessitiesA63F 13/22 Human necessitiesA63F 13/355 Human necessitiesA63F 13/79 Human necessitiesA63F 2300/8082 Human necessitiesMore from Sony in AR, VR & displays
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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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