Sony Files Patent for Tying Player Comments to Specific In-Game Play Units
Sony is patenting a way to attach player comments not just to a game session, but to a precise unit of gameplay…
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Sony Patents a Multi-Analog-Stick Input System That Picks a Lead Stick When All Are Idle
Sony is exploring controllers with more than two analog sticks — and this patent solves a surprisingly thorny problem: what should the…
Sony Patents a Vehicle Window That Doubles as a Per-Pixel Gaming Display
Sony wants to turn the passenger-side car window into a gaming screen — and it has a clever trick for dealing with…
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…
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…
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