Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited

Paul Terrence Mulligan

Andrew John Nicholas Jones

Ashley Sanders

Sashikanth Reddy Dareddy

A player identification system for identifying players from recorded video content, the system including a video content analysis unit operable to analyse one or more frames of video content, a player name identification unit operable to identify player names in one or more analysed frames of the video content, and a data generation unit operable to generate data relating to the video in dependence upon one or more identified player names.

Player identification system and method

A system for obtaining image content includes a receiving unit configured to receive video frames generated during the execution of a video game at a video game playing device, a monitoring unit operable to detect at least some of the video frames as corresponding to a loading screen, a content unit configured to obtain pre-generated image content for displaying in place of or addition to the video frames identified as corresponding to loading screens, a control unit configured to receive an input from the monitoring unit, and in response said input, select pre-generated image content for displaying in place of or in addition to the video frames detected as corresponding to a loading screen, and a display unit operable to display the selected pre-generated image content in place of or in addition to the video frames detected as corresponding to a loading screen.

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Hatfield, United Kingdom

Paul Terrence Mulligan