US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on June 23 for "Outputting braille or subtitles using computer game controller" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,583, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Outputting braille or subtitles using computer game controller" was invented by Olga Rudi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To help a computer game player in understanding a computer game, upon pausing the game, visual subtitles may be presented. In addition, or alternatively, Braille representing subtitles may be output as a series of vibrations on a touch pad of the controller. When the person's finger reaches the edge of the touch pad, a new series of Braille subtitles may be presented. Depending on where the player is in reading ...