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…
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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…
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…
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