Sony patents method to send audio to idle game controllers
Sony has filed a patent for a system that checks which connected game controllers are not being used. It then sends audio signals to those idle controllers, which contain vibration components, allowing the system to output sound through them.
In the filing’s own words
Disclosed herein is a method of outputting audio signals from a computing system to multiple peripheral devices, the method comprising: detecting a plurality of peripheral devices in a powered-on state, wherein each of the peripheral devices are connected to the computing system and respectively comprise a vibration generating component; identifying which of the peripheral devices are in an idle state; and sending audio signals to the identified peripheral devices.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of outputting audio signals from a computing system to a plurality of peripheral devices, comprising: detecting a plurality of peripheral devices in a powered-on state, wherein each of the peripheral devices are connected to the computing system and respectively comprise a vibration generating component; identifying which of the peripheral devices are in an idle state; and sending audio signals to the identified peripheral devices.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- METHOD OF OUTPUTTING AUDIO SIGNALS FROM A COMPUTING SYSTEM TO MULTIPLE PERIPHERAL DEVICES
- Publication number
- US20260284532A1
- Application number
- 19572416
- Filed
- Mar 19, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/54 Human necessitiesA63F 13/285 Human necessitiesA63F 13/31 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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