Patent ID: 9259641
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. An entertainment device comprising one or more processors configure to: detect whether a representation of a game feature of a game associated with the entertainment device and executed at the entertainment device using game software stored locally at the entertainment device should be obtained from the game in response to a predetermined game event of the game; obtain the representation of the game feature from the game; store the representation of the game feature obtained from the game in a storage arrangement; render the obtained representation of the game feature stored in the storage arrangement as a game feature within a virtual environment associated with the entertainment device, the virtual environment being an on-line virtual environment viewable by multiple on-line users and operable to display representations of game features relating to a plurality of the on-line users, the rendered game feature within the virtual environment being a trophy object in which the game associated with the entertainment device and from which the representation of the game feature may be obtained is different from the virtual environment associated with the entertainment device; and receive the representation of the game feature from a second entertainment device, in which: the representation of the game feature available for reception from the second entertainment device comprises high resolution image data relating to a high resolution version of the trophy object, and low resolution image data relating to a low resolution version of the trophy object, the one or more processors are operable to selectively receive either or both of the low resolution image data and the high resolution image data from the second entertainment device in dependence upon a position of the trophy object with respect to a three-dimensional avatar representation of a game character associated with a user, and the one or more processors are further operable to render the trophy object using either the low resolution image data or the high resolution image data received from the second entertainment device in dependence upon a detected position of the three-dimensional avatar representation with respect to the trophy object.