| sethnintendo said: "The patent says: A portable electronic device comprises a display facing in a first direction, a video camera facing in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, a receiver operable to receive supplementary image data from a remote image source, the supplementary image data comprising an indication of where a supplementary image is positioned with respect to a reference image, and in which the portable electronic device is arranged in operation to display a captured image from the video camera on the display of the portable electronic device, and when the captured image comprises all or part of the reference image as displayed on a separate display, the portable electronic device is arranged in operation to display the supplementary image positioned with respect to the reference image, instead of the corresponding part of the captured image."
The patent seems way too vague to me. I highly doubt Sony can sue based on an vague idea. Maybe if this patent was more in depth then they might have a case but just reading that paragraph it seems way too damn vague. |
Well Patents are always a battle between the patent office and the company/person applying for the patent. A vague patent covers more ground which is good for the patenter... but it could arguable be bad for innovation or create monopolies or whatever, so the patent office tries to trim the patent down.
This really doesn't sound like the Wii U though since it's streaming the content or different content.
