Sony Patent Hints At Tech That Allows The User To Create Mini-Games Out Of Captured Gameplay

Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a new patent describing technology that allows the user to create a mini-game out of captured gameplay.

The title of the patent is ‘Generating A Mini-Game Of A Video Game From A Game Play Recording,’ and describes how a system allows the user to tag a specific section of their gameplay, pause the game, and store that exact frame and tag it with metadata.

The console then uses this tagged gameplay portion and turns it into a video recording embedded with your tags, which is then transformed into a mini-game that others can then play. The patent blurb reads as follows:

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Methods for tagging content in a video game title during game play executed on a game cloud system, and social sharing methods. One method includes receiving a pause indication during the game play and suspending the game play to hold the video game title in a current frame image, storing the game state, and receiving the tag data that is associated to a location in the current frame image and to a user identifier for the current frame image.

The method further includes generating a video recording of the game play having the tag data and generating a mini-game from a portion of the video game title. The mini-game includes a playable portion to enable view of a portion of the video game recording for the mini-game and an executable portion to enable the play of game code for the mini-game that is a portion of the video game title.

The patent was filed back in March but Sony has only just published it. As with any patent, it doesn’t mean that this technology will 100% come to fruition, but it’s still very interesting to see what the company is toying with all the same.

[Source – Respawn First]