AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A BOOK DESCRIBING A USER'S VIDEOGAME PERFORMANCE

• US 20100203970A1
• Filed: 02/06/2009
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Hope, Eric James
• Granted Patent: US 8,425,325 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/554 by saving game or status data
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6018 where the game content is authored by the player, e.g. level editor or by game device at runtime, e.g. level is created from music data on CD
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/65 for computing the condition of a game character
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/807 Role playing or strategy games
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8094 Unusual game types, e.g. virtual cooking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided that record data in a videogame, such as a user'"'"'s character and performance in the videogame, and generate a book, e-book, or comic book based on the recorded data. A narrative data structure generated from the recorded data may include pregenerated text and images, and may provide for insertion of the recorded data into the narrative data structure. The recorded data may be converted into natural-language text for insertion into the narrative data structure. In some embodiments, the system may record screenshots of the videogame and insert the screenshots into the narrative data structure as illustrations. The narrative data structure may be provided to a location for printing as a book or other publication or may be electronically formatted and provided as an e-book.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

recording data from a videogame on an electronic device; and

inserting one or more portions of the recorded data into a narrative data structure, wherein the narrative data structure comprises a plurality of pregenerated text.

2. The method of claim 1, comprises selecting one or more of the plurality of pregenerated text based on one or more portions of the recorded data.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising generating a book, an e-book, or a combination thereof from the narrative data structure.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the recorded data comprises dialogue from the videogame.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the recorded data comprises results of a user'"'"'s interaction with the videogame.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the recorded data comprises information of one or more characters of the videogame.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the recorded data comprises screenshots of the videogame.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein inserting one or more portions of the recorded data comprises converting one or more portions of the recorded data into natural-language text.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the narrative data structure comprises a plurality of placeholders, wherein one more portions of the recorded data are inserted into one or more of the plurality of placeholders.

10. A method, comprising:

receiving data at a server from an electronic device over a network coupled to the electronic device, wherein the data comprises data recorded from a videogame;

converting the recorded data to natural-language text; and

generating a narrative data structure from the natural-language text.

11. The method of claim 10, comprising inserting pregenerated text into the narrative data structure.

12. The method of claim 10, comprising printing a book from the narrative data structure.

13. The method of claim 10, comprising generating an e-book from the narrative data structure on the server.

14. The method of claim 10, comprising sending an e-book based on the narrative data structure to the electronic device over the network.

15. The method of claim 10, comprising sending the e-book to a user of the electronic device.

16. A system, comprising:

an electronic device configured to record dialogue, character information, a user'"'"'s performance, screenshots, or a combination thereof, from a videogame, wherein the electronic device is further configured to combine the dialogue, character information, a user'"'"'s performance, screenshots with pregenerated text to create narrative data describing one or more gameplay sessions of a user of the videogame.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the electronic device comprises a mobile phone, a videogame console, or a personal computer.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the electronic device is configured to generate an e-book based on the narrative data.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the electronic device is configured to send the e-book to a user.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the electronic device is configured to send the narrative data to a server over a network coupled to the electronic device.

21. The system of claim 16, comprising a server configured to print a book based on the narrative data.

22. The system of claim 16, comprising an e-book, book, or comic book generated from the narrative data.

23. A method, comprising:

recording dialogue, character information, screenshots, and a user'"'"'s performance from a videogame, wherein the dialogue, character information, screenshots, and user'"'"'s performance are based on a user'"'"'s interaction with the videogame;

generating narrative data based on the recorded dialogue, character information, screenshots, and the user'"'"'s performance; and

generating an e-book from the narrative data.

24. The method of claim 23, comprising:

sending the recorded character information, screenshots, and the user'"'"'s performance over a network to a server at a remote location.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein generating narrative data comprising converting the recorded dialogue, character information, and the user'"'"'s performance to natural language text.