Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Michael Raymond Starich

William S Watson

Steve Agoston

Akshay V Rao

Rae Yip

Corbin J Percy

Joseph Hiroshi Kimura

In a method and system for viewer interaction with streaming media, a scene from a media presentation is displayed with a broadcasting device that includes an operating system level broadcaster interface overlay. The overlay generates an image frame from the scene. The image frame is sent to a viewer device. Viewer interaction parameters are received from a viewing device and a viewer interaction is displayed over a subsequent scene from the media presentation with the broadcaster interface overlay. On a viewing device an image frame from the media presentation is received from the broadcasting device. An operating system level viewer interface overlay is generated over the image frame and the image frame of the media presentation is displayed. Viewer interaction parameters are generated from a viewer interaction with the operating system level viewer interface overlay and sent to the broadcasting device.

Enhanced screen share for online computer applications

A method, including: receiving videos generated from sessions of a video game respectively associated to first client devices; for each video, determining location metadata that identifies spatial locations in a virtual environment of the video game at which gameplay depicted by the video occurs, the spatial locations defining a path of the gameplay; during a session of the video game associated to a second client device, determining a current spatial location in the virtual environment of gameplay occurring in the session; filtering the videos based on the current spatial location to identify one or more videos having paths that intersect a region proximate to the current spatial location; presenting, over the network, the identified one or more of the videos at the second client device; continuously tracking updates to the current spatial location and responsively updating the filtering of the videos based on said updates to the current spatial location.

Surfacing prerecorded gameplay video for in-game player assistance

In a method and system for viewer interaction with streaming media, a scene from a media presentation is displayed with a broadcasting device that includes an operating system level broadcaster interface overlay. The overlay generates an image frame from the scene of the media presentation. The image frame is sent to a viewer device. Viewer interaction parameters are received from a viewing device and a viewer interaction is displayed over a subsequent scene of the media presentation with the broadcaster interface overlay. On a viewing device an image frame of the media presentation is received from the broadcasting device. An operating system level viewer interface overlay is generated over the image frame and the image frame of the media presentation is displayed. Viewer interaction parameters are generated from a viewer interaction with the operating system level viewer interface overlay and sent to the broadcasting device.

A method, including: receiving, over a network from a plurality of first client devices that execute respective sessions of a video game, videos generated from the respective sessions at the first client devices; for each video, receiving, over the network from one of the first client devices, location metadata that identifies spatial locations in a virtual environment of the video game at which gameplay depicted by the video occurs, the location metadata being correlated to video frames of the video and identifying the spatial location of the gameplay depicted by a given video frame; during a session of the video game executed by a second client device, receiving, over the network, a current spatial location in the virtual environment of gameplay occurring in the session; using the current spatial location to select one or more of the videos; presenting, over the network, the selected videos at the second client device.

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Mission Viejo, CA, United States of America

Michael Raymond Starich