Post #26: Apple's Patent: Converting Data from a Video Game to Comic Book

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple a patent for their invention relating to systems and methods for recording data from a video game executed on an electronic device, and generating these data to convert it to a book, e-book, or comic book. The recorded data may include character information, dialogue from the video game, and results and metrics reflecting the performance of the user in the video game. These data may be inserted into a narrative data structure having pre-generated text. A book, e-book, or a comic book can be produced from the narrative data structure. The electronic device can send the recorded data to a server, and the server may send the e-book to the electronic device, to a user of the electronic device, and print a book from the narrative data structure.

It is interesting to see that Apple owning a big share of the tablet market and not so much in the realm of game consoles and storytelling-driven video game IP has been granted a patent such as this one. I do think it is a pretty cool idea from Apple to create a digital-comic-book version of the video game. I can see that if such system and method are implemented in the electronic device, a lot of gaming users would employ this application to create a their own digital-comic-book version of the game in record. It would also drive the imagination and innovation for the gaming industry to create and/or improve on the plot of a video game. 

For more information, visit: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/08/apple-app-will-create-a-comic-book-from-your-video-game-play.html