Sony patents system for adding notes to video game moments
Sony describes a method for recording gameplay data and attaching specific notes, such as text or video, to particular moments in a game. These annotations are then displayed to players during future sessions when they reach the same point in the game's state.
In the filing’s own words
A method for annotating a video game includes recording a first session of the video game including first gameplay output and first game state data, receiving an annotation including one or more of video, audio, graphics, text, or highlighting, associating the annotation with a selected point in the video game, the selected point corresponding to a selected portion of the first game state data, and presenting the annotation, in response to a triggering condition, at the selected point in the video game in a second session thereof, the second session including second gameplay output and second game state data.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving sensor data in association with a first session of a video game; determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, a point associated with a virtual environment of the video game and an annotation for insertion at the point; generating the annotation; and presenting the annotation at the point associated with the virtual environment in a second session of the video game.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
- Official title
- METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND SHARING VIDEO GAME ANNOTATIONS
- Publication number
- US20260263932A1
- Application number
- 19663408
- Filed
- Apr 30, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/5375 Human necessitiesA63F 13/52 Human necessitiesA63F 13/86 Human necessitiesMore 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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