AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SUGGESTED MINI-GAMES FOR CLOUD-GAMING BASED ON RECORDED GAMEPLAY

• US 20140179439A1
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miura, Victor Octav Suba, Perry, David, Dias, Philippe, Yong, Kelvin
• Granted Patent: US 9,352,226 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/23 for interfacing with the game device, e.g. specific interfaces between game controller and console
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/53 involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/70 Game security or game management aspects
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/73 Authorising game programs or game devices, e.g. checking authenticity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2402 Input by manual operation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2404 Keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2407 Joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/241 Touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2457 Display screens, e.g. monitors, video displays
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2488 Remotely playable
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/24 Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for video games A63F13/00; computerized gaming systems G07F17/32

Abstract

A method for generating a playable limited version of a video game is provided. A user'"'"'s gameplay of a full version of the video game is recorded. The user'"'"'s recorded gameplay is analyzed to determine a region of interest. Boundaries are defined within a gameplay context of the video game based on the determined region of interest. The limited version of the video game is generated based on the defined boundaries.

Claims

1. A method for generating a playable limited version of a video game, comprising:

recording a user'"'"'s gameplay of a full version of the video game;

analyzing the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay to determine a region of interest;

defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game based on the determined region of interest; and

generating the limited version of the video game based on the defined boundaries;

wherein the method is executed by a processor.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein recording the user'"'"'s gameplay includes recording one or more of user input data or game state data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein analyzing the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay includes determining levels of activity of the user input data or game state data, the region of interest being a region having levels of activity that exceed a predefined threshold.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game includes defining a spatial boundary within a virtual space of the video game.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the spatial boundary within the virtual space of the video game defines a portion of the virtual space less than an entirety of the virtual space, the portion of the virtual space having a subset of features of the virtual space.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game includes defining a temporal boundary within a temporal context of the video game.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein defining boundaries includes identifying a nearest start point or a nearest end point of one or more of a stage, level, or scene.

8. The method of claim 1,

wherein analyzing the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay includes determining user game state settings based on the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay;

and

wherein generating the limited version of the video game includes defining the limited version of the video game to have initial game state settings based on the determined user game state settings.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the region of interest is automatically identified based on correspondence to one or more thresholds.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein at least one of said thresholds is associated to one or more of user inputs, a rate of user input, a frequency of user input, repeats of a user input, an input pattern, sharing of the gameplay context with other users, posting of comments associated with the gameplay on a social network, or popularity of portions of the video game based on social network sharing levels.

11. A method for generating a playable limited version of a video game, comprising:

recording a user'"'"'s gameplay of a full version of the video game;

analyzing the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay to determine one or more regions of interest;

presenting each of the regions of interest for selection;

receiving a selection input indicating a selected region of interest;

for the selected region of interest, defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game based on the selected region of interest; and

generating the limited version of the video game based on the defined boundaries;

wherein the method is executed by a processor.

12. The method of claim 11,

wherein recording the user'"'"'s gameplay includes recording one or more of user input data or game state data.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein analyzing the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay includes determining levels of activity of the user input data or game state data, each region of interest being a region having levels of activity that exceed a predefined threshold.

14. The method of claim 11,

wherein analyzing the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay includes determining user game state settings based on the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay;

and

wherein generating the limited version of the video game includes defining the limited version of the video game to have initial game state settings based on the determined user game state settings.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein each region of interest is automatically identified based on correspondence to one or more thresholds.

16. A method for generating a playable limited version of a video game, comprising:

recording a user'"'"'s gameplay of a full version of the video game, wherein recording the user'"'"'s gameplay includes recording one or more of user input data or game state data;

analyzing the user'"'"'s recorded gameplay to determine one or more regions of interest, wherein each region of interest is automatically identified based on correspondence to one or more thresholds;

presenting each of the regions of interest for selection;

receiving a selection input indicating a selected region of interest;

for the selected region of interest, defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game based on the selected region of interest;

generating the limited version of the video game based on the defined boundaries;

wherein the method is executed by a processor.

17. The method of claim 16,

wherein defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game includes defining a spatial boundary within a virtual space of the video game;

wherein the spatial boundary within the virtual space of the video game defines a portion of the virtual space less than an entirety of the virtual space, the portion of the virtual space having a subset of features of the virtual space.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein defining boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game includes defining a temporal boundary within a temporal context of the video game.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein defining boundaries includes identifying a nearest start point or a nearest end point of one or more of a stage, level, or scene.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein at least one of said thresholds is associated to one or more of user inputs, a rate of user input, a frequency of user input, repeats of a user input, an input pattern, sharing of the gameplay context with other users, posting of comments associated with the gameplay on a social network, or popularity of portions of the video game based on social network sharing levels.