Sony Patents a Cost-Volume System for High-Accuracy ToF Depth Estimation
Time-of-Flight sensors are fast but fuzzy — they trade spatial resolution for speed. Sony's new patent describes a way to squeeze much…
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Sony Patents a Mid-Frame Cancellation System for Cloud Gaming Latency
Cloud gaming's dirtiest secret is that servers often finish rendering a frame your input already made obsolete. Sony's new patent tries to…
Sony Patents a Reinforcement-Learning System That Trains Around Network Lag
Network lag is a fact of life in online gaming — but what if the AI controlling game agents could learn which…
Sony Patents a Multi-Camera System That Shows Every Camera's Shooting Range at Once
Managing a dozen cameras at a live event means constantly guessing what each one is covering. Sony's new patent describes a system…
Sony Files Patent for Precise Round-Trip Time Signal Timing in 5G Networks
Getting a phone's location indoors is hard — and a lot of that comes down to timing. Sony's new patent tries to…
Sony Patents a Friend-Matching System Built Around When You Actually Play
Finding online friends who are actually online when you are is surprisingly hard. Sony's new patent tries to fix that by turning…
Sony Patents a Margin-Region Eye-Gaze System for Picking Objects in 3D Space
Staring at something in VR to select it sounds simple — until you realize how hard it is to tell exactly which…
Sony Patents LLM-Powered NPCs That React to What You Actually Say
Sony is patenting a system where NPCs don't just hear you talk — they understand what you're asking for, act on it…
Sony Patents a System for Adding Realistic Rolling Shutter Distortion to CG Images
When a camera sensor reads out pixels line by line instead of all at once, fast-moving objects appear skewed or wobbly —…
Intel Patents a RAG Pipeline That Continuously Fine-Tunes Its Own AI Models
Intel has patented a system where every question you ask a RAG-powered AI doesn't just get answered — it also feeds a…
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