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.

Patent No.: US 11,097,189
Country: United States
Title: CONTEXTUALLY AWARE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM IN VIDEO GAMES
Date Issued:  August 24, 2021
Date added to pledge: August 24, 2021

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

Patent No.: US 10,118,097
Country: United States
Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING FOR IMAGES WITH SIMILAR LUMINOSITIES
Date Issued: November 6, 2018
Date added to pledge: August 24, 2021

Patent No.: CN 107694092
Country: China
Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING FOR IMAGES WITH SIMILAR LUMINOSITIES
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.

Patent No.: US 10,878,540
Country: United States
Title: CONTRAST RATIO DETECTION AND RENDERING SYSTEM
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.

Patent No.: US 10,790,919
Country: United States
Title: PERSONALIZED REAL-TIME AUDIO GENERATION BASED ON USER PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE
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.

Patent No.: US 11,458,388
Country: United States
Title: AUTOMATED CONTROLLER CONFIGURATION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
Date Issued:  October 4, 2022
Date added to pledge: December 2, 2022

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

Patent No.: US 10,926,173
Country: United States
Title: CUSTOM VOICE CONTROL OF VIDEO GAME CHARACTER
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.

Patent No.: US 10,621,317
Country: United States
Title: AUDIO-BASED DEVICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM
Date Issued:  April 14, 2020
Date added to pledge: December 2, 2022

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

Patent No.: US 9,772,743
Country: United States
Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOVABLE CONTROL PAD ON A TOUCH ENABLED DEVICE
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.

Patent No.: US 11,358,054
Country: United States
Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSCRIBING USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS OF A GAME APPLICATION INTO HAPTIC FEEDBACK
Date Issued:  June 14, 2022
Date added to pledge: December 2, 2022

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.

Patent No.: US 11,504,625
Country: United States
Title: COLOR BLINDNESS DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM
Date Issued:  November 22, 2022
Date added to pledge: December 2, 2022

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

Patent No.: US 10,864,446
Country: United States
Title: AUTOMATED PLAYER CONTROL TAKEOVER IN A VIDEO GAME
Date Issued: December 15, 2020
Date added to pledge: December 1, 2023

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

Patent No.: US 10,279,264
Country: United States
Title: ADAPTIVE GAMING TUTORIAL SYSTEM
Date Issued:  May 7, 2019
Date added to pledge: December 1, 2023

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

Patent No.: US 10,406,437
Country: United States
Title: ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITHIN A GAME APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
Date Issued:  September 10, 2019
Date added to pledge: December 1, 2023

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

Patent No.: US 11,724,201
Country: United States
Title: ANIMATED AND PERSONALIZED COACH FOR VIDEO GAMES
Date Issued:  August 15, 2023
Date added to pledge: December 1, 2023