--- title: "Nintendo Patent – Enhanced Minimap Features" url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/general/nintendo-patent-enhanced-minimap-features/" description: "Nintendo applied for a new patent to improve mini-maps in its games. The enhanced mini-map appears to be primarily focused on the Splatoon series" author: "Patrick Dankers" published at: "2022-04-23 16:23:06" image: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-patent-enhanced-minimap-features.jpeg" markdown url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/general/nintendo-patent-enhanced-minimap-features.md" --- Nintendo Patent - Enhanced Minimap Features | General News | NintendoReporters [![Nintendo Patent – Enhanced Minimap Features](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-patent-enhanced-minimap-features.jpeg "Nintendo Patent – Enhanced Minimap Features")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-patent-enhanced-minimap-features.jpeg)Nintendo applied for a new patent to improve mini-maps in its games. The enhanced mini-map appears to be primarily focused on the Splatoon series, and appears to be a system that allows players to better understand their position on the map, the location of important items, and points of interest, by utilizing more dynamic and responsive camera movement. The patent itself is far more extensive, and there is very certainly much more to this system than what can be presented here. ## [](#mini-map-features)Mini-map features > Here's some newish Nintendo patent that I think is about making better mini-maps for games like Splatoon. Don't have time to decode it, so letting all of you amazing patent readers have at it instead. Let me know! [pic.twitter.com/OYt2hud3To](https://t.co/OYt2hud3To) > > — Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) [April 19, 2022](https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1516495096832790532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Full details; [https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/11310474](https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/11310474) [](#) [ ](#) > Generated for use by AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). > Generated: 2026-09-12 09:38:54 > Maintained by: NintendoReporters > Source: https://www.nintendoreporters.com/ > Contact: webmaster@nintendoreporters.com