The gaming scene can be pretty toxic, especially in the competitive gaming space. Gamers have to deal with griefers and cheaters as well as everyone else's who are just out to ruin everyone's day.
Sony has filed a new patent aimed at combating toxicity in the gaming community. This new patent will moderate players' emotions during gameplay sessions.
Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's gaming arm, filed the patent for "Emotion Detection & Moderation based on Voice Inputs" on September 30, 2021, which was approved at the end of March.
According to the patent, Sony plans to create a system for identifying and controlling emotions based on voice inputs from the player. The system will analyze the emotional profile of players and applies a set of rules to modify communication based on their emotional states. The system will then modify messages sent by the player based on the emotional profile of the player receiving the message.
"An emotional state detected as being associated with a subset of the messages may trigger at least one of the moderation rules by corresponding to at least one of the emotional states specified by the user emotion profile," the patent reads. "A presentation of at least one of the messages in the subset being provided to the user device may be modified in accordance with the moderation action specified by the user emotion profile."
