Sony Patents a Vertex-Pairing System to Fix 3D Mesh Encoding Seams
When you compress a 3D model by slicing it into patches, the edges where those patches meet can fall apart at decode…
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Sony Patents a Pose-Matching System That Scores You the Same From Any Angle
Sony is patenting a pose-evaluation system that gives you the same score whether you're facing the camera head-on, standing off to the…
Sony Patents a System That Fills Game Load Screens With Player Reports
Loading screens are dead time — and Sony wants to fill them with something useful. A new PlayStation patent describes a system…
Sony Files Patent for Auto-Capturing Gameplay Video to Generate New Content
Sony has filed a patent for a system that automatically captures gameplay footage and uses it to generate entirely new videos —…
Sony Patents a Two-Layer Stacked Chip for Compact LiDAR Distance Sensing
Sony Semiconductor is trying to shrink a LiDAR sensor down to a two-layer silicon sandwich — putting the laser emitter and light…
Sony Patents a Tile-Based Hierarchical Map System for Real-Time 3D Streaming
Sony is patenting a system that breaks 3D scene data into tiles and resolution layers, streaming only the pieces your current viewpoint…
Sony Patents an AI System That Turns Patient Sensor Data Into Caregiver Conversations
Sony is patenting a system that watches a patient's sensor data around the clock, picks out the moments worth talking about, and…
Sony Patents a Zone-Based Codec That Ties Audio Quality to Where the Action Is
Sony Interactive Entertainment has patented a codec that doesn't just compress video differently depending on where you're looking — it also adjusts…
Sony Patents a Shared Logical Address System to Speed Up Console Boot Loading
Sony is patenting a way to make your console's secondary processor pre-load downloaded data in the background — using the exact same…
Sony Patents a System That Plays Ads During PlayStation Loading Screens
Sony has filed a patent for a system that detects when a loading screen is about to appear, predicts how long it…
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