It isn’t often we talk about patents for video game mechanics, but today EA is giving us a pretty good reason to. Electronic Arts announced this morning that
It isn’t often we talk about patents for video game mechanics, but today EA is giving us a pretty good reason to. Electronic Arts announced this morning that it’s making several patents centered around accessibility free to use for all game developers. EA says that it’s making these patents royalty-free through a program called the “Patent Pledge.” The Patent Pledge concerns five patents that EA has been awarded here in the United States. Two of the patents are for image processing technology “that improves visibility of colors to optimize for color vision deficiencies.” A third patent is for technology dealing with contrast ratios, specifically technology tasked with “automatically detecting contrast ratios in pixel regions of rendered frames and updating regions having subpar contrast ratios to meet contrast ratio standards or thresholds.
