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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2023
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Celeste Bean, San Francisco, CA (US);
Glenn Black, San Mateo, CA (US);
Victoria Dorn, Hayward, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method is provided for facilitating communication between players in a video game, including the following operations: receiving video of a first player during gameplay of the video game; analyzing the video to identify gestures made by the first player; responsive to identifying the gestures, then translating the gestures into a text communication, wherein translating the gestures uses a context of the video game to determine content of the text communication; presenting the text communication through an in-game chat of the video game, for viewing by a second player during the gameplay of the video game.