Sony patents AI search for specific video game moments
Sony has filed a patent for a system that lets players search for specific video game clips using natural language or context-based queries. The system uses an AI model to analyze gameplay footage and tag it with descriptive metadata, allowing it to match user requests with relevant videos from other players.
In the filing’s own words
Techniques to facilitate querying of video game-specific features are provided. In an example, a computing system is provided that may receive, from a device associated with a first user, a query for a video associated with a video game. The query may indicate a first operational context for an event in the video game. In response to receiving the query, the computing system may identify a video of the event by determining that metadata associated with the video matches the first operational context indicated in the query. The video of the event may correspond to a game play of the video game by a second user. The metadata may be generated by an AI-model and may indicate a second operational context associated with the game play. The computing system may then transmit a query result indicative of the video to the device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a device associated with a first user, a query for at least one video associated with a video game, the query indicating a first operational context for an event in the video game; in response to receiving the query: identifying a video of the event by determining that metadata associated with the video matches the first operational context indicated in the query, the video of the event corresponding to a game play of the video game by a second user, and the metadata being generated by an AI-model and indicating a second operational context associated with the game play; and transmitting a query result indicative of the video to the device.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.)
- Official title
- AI-DRIVEN QUERYABLE PLATFORM FOR VIDEO GAME DATA
- Publication number
- US20260273418A1
- Application number
- 19081933
- Filed
- Mar 17, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/67 Human necessitiesA63F 13/86 Human necessitiesMore from Sony in AI & software
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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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