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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Joseph Wheeler, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher M. Novak, Woodinville, WA (US);
Aron R. Chavez, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tyler Esselstrom, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Peter M. Wiest, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system is configured to implement a graphical overlay in a streaming game based on a current game state. Game data generated by a video game is received including game video in the form of a video stream containing game video frames. The game video is displayed on a display screen of a computing device to represent the video game to a user playing the video game at the computing device. At least one feature of the video game is identified at least in the game data. A user interface (UI) control configuration associated with the identified at least one feature is selected from among a plurality of UI control configurations for the video game and a graphical overlay corresponding to the selected UI control configuration is implemented on the video game in the display screen.