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Activision Publishing, Inc.

Activision Publishing, Inc. surprisingly shows a significant shift in its patent strategy, with its core "Games & Gaming" category experiencing a sharp decline of 59.5% in 2025 and a further 29.4% so far in 2026, despite still representing 92.4% of its portfolio. Concurrently, "Image Processing" is emerging as a key focus, demonstrating a remarkable 100.0% year-over-year growth in 2026, indicating a strategic pivot towards underlying visual technologies rather than solely game mechanics.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

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Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

118 US filings (since 2023) · 11 categories · 12 themes

Online & Cloud Gaming Platforms

Systems and architectures that enable game execution, content delivery, and interactive social experiences through cloud infrastructure and live streaming technologies.

Games & Gaming
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27since 2023
-66.7%YoY
Hybrid Physical-Digital Games

Games that integrate physical objects, real-world environments, or location data with virtual game elements to create interactive experiences.

Games & Gaming
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21since 2023
-16.7%YoY
Immersive Audiovisual & Haptic Feedback

Technologies that enhance player immersion through advanced graphics rendering, multi-sensory feedback (haptic, auditory), and synchronized interactive experiences in virtual or physical environments.

Games & Gaming
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17since 2023
-60.0%YoY
Real-time Graphics Rendering

Techniques and hardware architectures designed to efficiently generate and display complex 3D graphics, particularly for interactive applications like virtual reality, focusing on speed and visual quality.

Image Processing
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10since 2023
-50.0%YoY
AR/VR User Interfaces

Techniques for rendering, interacting with, and managing content within augmented or virtual reality environments, including spatial tracking, gaze interaction, and dynamic multi-application display management.

Input/Output & User Interfaces
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8since 2023
-66.7%YoY
Modular Game Peripherals

Design and functionality of game controllers and input devices that allow for customization, modular component swapping, or specialized input methods beyond standard buttons.

Games & Gaming
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7since 2023
-33.3%YoY
Video Enhancement & Object Trackingfiltered

Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.

Image Processing
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5since 2023
+100.0%YoY
AI-Enhanced Sports Training & Monitoring

Systems using artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor athlete performance, provide personalized training plans, predict physiological responses, or create virtual representations for feedback and analysis.

Games & Gaming
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4since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Secure Data Sharing & Rights Management

Mechanisms to facilitate the secure exchange of data between different entities or systems while enforcing usage policies, managing digital content rights, and ensuring data consistency during replication or transfer.

Computer Security
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4since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Network Intrusion Detection

Systems and methods for identifying and blocking unauthorized access, malicious activities, or abnormal behavior within a network by analyzing traffic, system logs, or behavioral patterns.

Network Security & Access Control
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4since 2023
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Wearable & Mobile Interaction

Designing user interfaces and interaction methods specifically for mobile or wearable devices, enabling control of external systems, monitoring user states, or facilitating real-world transactions.

Input/Output & User Interfaces
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1since 2023
n/a
Secure Data Storage & Provenance

Techniques for protecting data at rest or in backup, ensuring its integrity, confidentiality, and verifiable origin, often involving encryption, unique identifiers, or secure repositories.

Computer Security
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1since 2023
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Patents

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US 20260061314 A1APPLICATION
A63F13/525

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

Filed:2025-05-20Pub:2026-03-05
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

A method may include, at a computing device: establishing a virtual camera at a first location relative to an avatar model of the virtual character, wherein the virtual camera has a camera orientation and the avatar model has a model orientation, wherein the virtual camera is configured to view the virtual environment from a first-person perspective and at a camera height, obtaining a posture of the avatar model, obtaining an angular displacement between the camera orientation and the model orientation, determining camera height of the virtual camera based on the posture and the angular displacement, positioning the virtual camera based on the camera height, rendering a video frame of the virtual environment by the virtual camera at the camera height; and providing for display the video frame on a display device.

US 20240408486 A1APPLICATION
A63F13/52

Methods and Systems for Determining Decal Projections Intersecting Spatial Units in a Frame of a Game Space

Filed:2024-08-19Pub:2024-12-12
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

A method of shading spatial units while rendering a frame in a video game. Initially, the virtual camera field of view is divided into a group of spatial units and each spatial unit in the group of spatial units is tested to determine which decals intersect the spatial unit. To do so, an initial list of decals associated with a given game space is tested. Once a subset of decals for a given spatial unit is identified, that spatial unit is subdivided further into smaller spatial units. The smaller spatial units are tested again, however, instead of using the initial list of decals, only the smaller subset of decals that was identified is used. The iterative process of subdividing the spatial units into smaller and smaller spatial units and testing each spatial unit continues until a given (higher) resolution is reached for the game space.

US 20230367396 A1APPLICATION
G06F3/01

Systems and Methods for Guiding Actors Using a Motion Capture Reference System

Filed:2023-07-24Pub:2023-11-16
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

The specification discloses methods and systems for enabling users to configure one or more actuators in data communication with a user's computing device and positioned on a prop to generate and deliver feedback to a motion capture actor engaged with the prop. At least one graphical interface in the computing device is configured to enable the user to configure occurrence of at least one event during a scene, associate a time and duration of occurrence to the at least one event within an overall duration of the scene, select the prop, assign the at least one event and the associated time and duration of occurrence to at least one actuator on the prop, configure at least one parameter for the feedback, and activate the at least one actuator to generate and deliver the feedback to the actor in response to an occurrence of the at least one event.

US 11709551 B2GRANTED
G06F3/01

Systems and methods for guiding actors using a motion capture reference system

Filed:2022-11-22Pub:2023-07-25
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

The specification discloses methods and systems for enabling users to configure one or more actuators in data communication with a user's computing device and positioned on a prop to generate and deliver feedback to a motion capture actor engaged with the prop. At least one graphical interface in the computing device is configured to enable the user to configure occurrence of at least one event during a scene, associate a time and duration of occurrence to the at least one event within an overall duration of the scene, select the prop, assign the at least one event and the associated time and duration of occurrence to at least one actuator on the prop, configure at least one parameter for the feedback, and activate the at least one actuator to generate and deliver the feedback to the actor in response to an occurrence of the at least one event.

US 20230079010 A1APPLICATION
G06F3/01

Systems and Methods for Guiding Actors Using a Motion Capture Reference System

Filed:2022-11-22Pub:2023-03-16
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

The specification discloses methods and systems for enabling users to configure one or more actuators in data communication with a user's computing device and positioned on a prop to generate and deliver feedback to a motion capture actor engaged with the prop. At least one graphical interface in the computing device is configured to enable the user to configure occurrence of at least one event during a scene, associate a time and duration of occurrence to the at least one event within an overall duration of the scene, select the prop, assign the at least one event and the associated time and duration of occurrence to at least one actuator on the prop, configure at least one parameter for the feedback, and activate the at least one actuator to generate and deliver the feedback to the actor in response to an occurrence of the at least one event.

US 11537209 B2GRANTED
G06F3/01

Systems and methods for guiding actors using a motion capture reference system

Filed:2020-12-16Pub:2022-12-27
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

The specification discloses methods and systems for enabling users to configure one or more actuators in data communication with a user's computing device and positioned on a prop to generate and deliver feedback to a motion capture actor engaged with the prop. At least one graphical interface in the computing device is configured to enable the user to configure occurrence of at least one event during a scene, associate a time and duration of occurrence to the at least one event within an overall duration of the scene, select the prop, assign the at least one event and the associated time and duration of occurrence to at least one actuator on the prop, configure at least one parameter for the feedback, and activate the at least one actuator to generate and deliver the feedback to the actor in response to an occurrence of the at least one event.

US 11189084 B2GRANTED
G06T15/50

Systems and methods for executing improved iterative optimization processes to personify blendshape rigs

Filed:2020-01-17Pub:2021-11-30
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

The present specification describes systems and methods for automatically generating personalized blendshapes from actor performance measurements, while preserving the semantics of a template facial animation rig. The disclosed inventions facilitate the creation of an ensemble of realistic digital double face rigs for each individual with consistent behaviour across the set with sophisticated iterative optimization techniques.

US 20210181848 A1APPLICATION
G06F3/01

Systems and Methods for Guiding Actors Using a Motion Capture Reference System

Filed:2020-12-16Pub:2021-06-17
Applicant:Activision Publishing, Inc.

The specification discloses methods and systems for enabling users to configure one or more actuators in data communication with a user's computing device and positioned on a prop to generate and deliver feedback to a motion capture actor engaged with the prop. At least one graphical interface in the computing device is configured to enable the user to configure occurrence of at least one event during a scene, associate a time and duration of occurrence to the at least one event within an overall duration of the scene, select the prop, assign the at least one event and the associated time and duration of occurrence to at least one actuator on the prop, configure at least one parameter for the feedback, and activate the at least one actuator to generate and deliver the feedback to the actor in response to an occurrence of the at least one event.

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