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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2019
Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Joshuah Vincent, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nico Benitez, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Emily Adams, Fremont, CA (US);
Jan Chong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Cook, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul Marshall, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pierpaolo Baccichet, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matt Piotrowski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Collin Carey, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kevin Koleckar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and graphical user interface for playing games and/or executing applications on a tablet-based client. One embodiment of a graphical user interface (GUI) for playing a video game on a tablet-based client device comprises: a virtual controller rendered on a display of the tablet computer, the virtual controller substantially mimicking the control provided by a thumb stick of a physical game controller and providing omnidirectional, free-form movement in a synchronous direction in which a user moves a finger on the display of the tablet-based client.