Sony Patents Real-Time Environmental Reflections for AR Virtual Objects
One of the biggest reasons AR objects look fake is that they don't reflect the world around them. Sony's latest patent tackles…
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Sony Patents a Federated Learning System That Keeps Your Data Local
Sony is patenting a federated learning architecture that lets a central server improve an AI model using data from many devices —…
Sony Patents a Thermal Throttle for In-Car Cabin Monitoring Cameras
A car parked in the summer sun can turn into an oven — and that's a real problem for the cameras and…
Sony Patents an AI System That Diagnoses and Auto-Fixes Game Performance Bugs
Sony wants to automate one of the most tedious parts of game development: hunting down why your frame rate just tanked. A…
Sony Patents an AI Engine That Remixes Your Music to Match Video Game Moments
Imagine playing a tense boss fight — but instead of the game's original score, your own playlist is dynamically remixed in real-time…
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…
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…
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