At Electronic Arts (EA), we want to make sure that gaming is inclusive for everyone and that nothing comes between our players and our shared love for video games. To do this, we need to reduce or eliminate as many barriers to access as possible and empower our gamers. So, as part of our commitment to making video games more inclusive, we launched our accessibility patent pledge because everyone deserves to game.

Through the Pledge, we share our accessibility-centered technology with the wider industry so that together we can meet the needs of our diverse gaming community. It covers some of our most innovative technologies designed to break down barriers for players with disabilities. This includes those with vision, hearing, speaking or cognitive conditions. Better yet, all this IP has been shared royalty-free, which means you won’t need to pay royalties or license fees to use it.

Our Pledge

Electronic Arts (EA) promises not to enforce against any party for infringing any of the listed EA patents. A list of patents subject to this pledge can be found below, and EA may add additional patents to this pledge at a later date. 

EA makes this pledge legally binding, irrevocable (except as under “Defensive Termination”) and enforceable against EA and all subsequent patent owners of the listed patents. This pledge does not provide any warranties or assurances that the activities covered by pledged patents are free from patent or other intellectual property infringement claims by a third party.

Defensive Termination

EA reserves the right to terminate this pledge for a specific party or its affiliates going forward if that party files a patent infringement lawsuit or other patent proceeding against EA, its affiliates, or partners.

List of Patents

Ping System that allows players to transmit contextually aware audio and visual communications generated via mappable controller inputs.

Title: CONTEXTUALLY AWARE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM IN VIDEO GAMES

Patent No.: US 11,097,189
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: August 24, 2021
    Date Added to Pledge: August 24, 2021

Patent No.: US 11,673,048
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: June 13, 2023
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: US 12,090,402
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: September 17, 2024
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: KR 102413266
    Country: South Korea
    Date Issued: June 27, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Image processing that improves visibility of colors to optimize for color vision deficiencies.

Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING FOR IMAGES WITH SIMILAR LUMINOSITIES

Patent No.: US 10,118,097
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: November 6, 2018
    Date Added to Pledge: August 24, 2021

Patent No.: CN 107694092
    Country: China
    Date Issued: November 3, 2020
    Date Added to Pledge: August 24, 2021

Automatically detecting contrast ratios in pixel regions of rendered frames and updating regions having subpar contrast ratios to meet contrast ratio standards or thresholds.

Title: CONTRAST RATIO DETECTION AND RENDERING SYSTEM

Patent No.: US 10,878,540
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: December 29, 2020
    Date Added to Pledge: August 24, 2021

Generating personalized music based on a user’s hearing information and stylistic preference to best comport with that user’s hearing issues.

Title: PERSONALIZED REAL-TIME AUDIO GENERATION BASED ON USER PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE

Patent No.: US 10,790,919
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: September 29, 2020
    Date Added to Pledge: August 24, 2021

Machine learning system that automatically recommends controller configuration settings based on a player's specific gameplay style, skill and tendencies.

Title: AUTOMATED CONTROLLER CONFIGURATION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM

Patent No.: US 11,458,388
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: October 4, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2022

Patent No.: US 11,857,868
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: January 2, 2024
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Player-designated custom voice utterances for controlling in-game actions of non-player characters (NPCs).

Title: CUSTOM VOICE CONTROL OF VIDEO GAME CHARACTER

Patent No.: US 10,926,173
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: February 23, 2021
    Date Added to Pledge: December 2, 2022

Audio-based authentication for pairing player accounts with voice controlled devices, allowing players to use voice utterances to interact with portions of a game in an authenticated manner.

Title: AUDIO-BASED DEVICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM

Patent No.: US 10,621,317
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: April 14, 2020
    Date Added to Pledge: December 2, 2022

Patent No.: US 11,120,113
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: September 14, 2021
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Virtual joystick that moves based on the position of a player’s thumb on a touchscreen.

Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOVABLE CONTROL PAD ON A TOUCH ENABLED DEVICE

Patent No.: US 9,772,743
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: September 26, 2017
    Date Added to Pledge: December 2, 2022

Using haptic feedback sequences to convey to players information displayed on a screen as well as inputs to press to select certain content.

Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSCRIBING USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS OF A GAME APPLICATION INTO HAPTIC FEEDBACK

Patent No.: US 11,358,054
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: June 14, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 2, 2022

Patent No.: US 11,786,812
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: October 17, 2023
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: KR 102432011
    Country: South Korea
    Date Issued: August 12, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: CN 113332709
    Country: China
    Date Issued: October 1, 2024
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Color blindness indication objects used in game to automatically determine, enable, and adjust color blind accessibility settings during a gameplay session of a video game.

Title: COLOR BLINDNESS DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

Patent No.: US 11,504,625
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  November 22, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 2, 2022

Patent No.: US 11,872,492
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  January 16, 2024
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: KR 102360430
    Country: South Korea
    Date Issued:  February 9, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Auto-detects when a player stops interacting with a game and temporarily converts their player-controlled character to a personalized system-driven character.

Title: AUTOMATED PLAYER CONTROL TAKEOVER IN A VIDEO GAME

Patent No.: US 10,864,446
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: December 15, 2020
    Date Added to Pledge: December 1, 2023

Patent No.: KR 102397507
    Country: South Korea
    Date Issued: May 13, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: CN 111744201
    Country: China
    Date Issued: May 28, 2024
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Provides guidance on performing in-game commands in a way that’s tailored to each player’s skill or play style.

Title: ADAPTIVE GAMING TUTORIAL SYSTEM

Patent No.: US 10,279,264
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  May 7, 2019
    Date Added to Pledge: December 1, 2023

Patent No.: US 11,161,044
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  November 2, 2021
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Generates navigation routes and displays navigation aid lines directing players through large and complex game worlds.

Title: ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITHIN A GAME APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT

Patent No.: US 10,406,437
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  September 10, 2019
    Date Added to Pledge: December 1, 2023

Patent No.: US 11,235,241
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  February 1, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Provides players a personalized, animated coach for improving their in-game performance.

Title: ANIMATED AND PERSONALIZED COACH FOR VIDEO GAMES

Patent No.: US 11,724,201
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  August 15, 2023
    Date Added to Pledge: December 1, 2023

Improves the accuracy and efficiency of speech recognition by using personal phoneme mappings for each user, to better understand accent and other pronunciation variations.

Title: INTELLIGENT PERSONALIZED SPEECH RECOGNITION

Patent No.: US 10,629,192
    Country: United States
    Date Issued:  April 21, 2020
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Generates expressive speech audio from text data, and provides more control and personalization of the generated speech based on desired speaking style and speaker attributes.

Title: GENERATING EXPRESSIVE SPEECH AUDIO FROM TEXT DATA

Patent No.: US 11,295,721
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: April 5, 2022
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: US 12,033,611
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: July 9, 2024
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Generates speech in the voice of a player, for their avatar, based on minimal sample speech data as compared with existing techniques.

Title: GENERATING SPEECH IN THE VOICE OF A PLAYER OF A VIDEO GAME

Patent No.: US 11,790,884
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: October 17, 2023
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Ages an original input voice to a desired target age without requiring additional voice samples.

Title: VOICE AGING USING MACHINE LEARNING

Patent No.: US 11,735,158
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: August 22, 2023
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Infers a player’s emotion while playing a video game and tunes the background soundtrack of the game to best fit that emotion. 

Title: EMOTION BASED MUSIC STYLE CHANGE USING DEEP LEARNING

Patent No.:  US 11,617,952
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: April 4, 2023
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.:  US 11,896,902
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: February 13, 2024
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Automatically detects and enables speech recognition technologies available on a gaming device.

Title: DYNAMICALLY SELECTING SPEECH FUNCTIONALITY ON CLIENT DEVICES

Patent No.: US 9,767,803
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: September 19, 2017
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024

Patent No.: US 10,026,404
    Country: United States
    Date Issued: July 17, 2018
    Date Added to Pledge: December 5, 2024