Sony Patents System For Communicating Through Haptic Vibrations

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Sony has submitted an all-new patent that leverages a device's baseline haptic vibration motors to communicate various messages to its user. The latest in a long line of the company's patent listings, this particular use case offers some interesting functionality, going so far as to implement a relatively simple encryption system to offer a secure communication channel.

Over the past couple of months and years, Sony has come up with a whole slew of innovative patents and hypothetical device descriptions, most of them being fairly interesting and potentially niche-defining once fully realized. This particular patent describes a special line of communication that could be established between two separate devices, and which would be propagated via their haptic vibration motors.

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Whereas the patent itself makes no direct reference to any specific device or gamepad, DualSense's haptic controller features would be a perfect match for the functionality described therein. According to the document, controllers in question would need to be able to communicate with one another (and potentially even third-party devices) through a series of haptic queries and responses, as well as being able to encrypt and decrypt messages that are being sent out or received, respectively.

Though the Sony DualSense was underutilized in 2021, the company is clearly looking into ways that it could use its advanced haptic capabilities in ways that most users would probably have never come up with. Though the patent is certainly applicable to DualSense itself, which is likely to be Sony's platform of choice for such features, it's also worth pointing out that the same approach could likely