ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,756, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Machine based narration for a scene of a video game" was invented by Charles McCoy (San Diego), True Xiong (San Diego) and Nathan Blaine Morgan (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating broadcasts including receiving game state data and user data of players participating in a gaming session of a video game. A spectator zone-of-interest in the gaming session is identified having a scene of a virtual gaming world that is viewable from camera perspectives in the virtual gaming world. Statistics and facts are generated fo...