The company is working on a new system that allows you to see a second small screen and additional information in one corner of the television.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has applied for the registration of a new patent related to an information processing system dedicated to video games. The Japanese company, whose application was validated in the Japanese WIPO IP Portal, breaks down this multi-screen gaming system in the document. Let’s take a look at this idea, which does not have to be translated into anything concrete. There is no hint, in fact, that it was intended for the PlayStation 5.
What do we know about the operation of this Sony patent
Based on the official document, this patent uses a device – presumably a PlayStation console – as its field of work to offer additional information to the player while, as we see in the example, go through levels in an FPS. “A main screen is displayed including the main content; a secondary screen is displayed that includes secondary content at the same time and on the same screen. ”
But that secondary content can become the main one; as when a sports broadcast is offered and the performance exchanges the main camera. By pressing a button, you can close that secondary content, where the player is in another place on the stage; or you can also make a change so that screen 1 becomes screen 2, and vice versa. When applying this direct exchange, what was previously relegated to a visible second plane will become the main thing.
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE from Sony | WIPO IP Portal
Ideas and possible applications in a video game
Possibilities applicable for practical purposes in a video game? Many ideas can occur to us. One of them, for example, is that the player uses two characters in the same game, although not simultaneously. The screen you choose as the main one would be the one we handle, while when it is in the background it would be controlled by the AI (or by another user if multiplayer compatibility is introduced).
We insist: this registration is applied as a legal endorsement. Sony may or may not use it in the future, but it is an original idea that opens up many opportunities for the future of electronic entertainment.
Source | WIPO (via Gaming Bolt)
