IBM Patents a System for Sending Different Screen Content to Different Video Call Participants
Imagine running a Zoom call where your sales team sees the CRM dashboard, your engineers see the terminal logs, and your exec…
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Red Hat Patents a Nested Container System for Cross-Platform Workloads
Red Hat has patented a way to spin up a container inside another container — sharing the outer container's network identity —…
IBM Patents a Screenshot Format That Keeps Buttons Functional
A screenshot is usually a dead image — you can see the button, but you can't tap it. IBM wants to change…
Adobe Patents a System for Keeping Customer Identity Graphs from Collapsing
When you try to link too many customer identifiers together in a single graph, the whole thing can fall apart. Adobe's new…
Sony Patents a Method to Build 3D Head Meshes from a Single 2D Photo
Sony Interactive Entertainment has patented a way to generate a full 3D head mesh from a single 2D photo — without requiring…
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…
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 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 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…
Sony Patents a 3D Facial Animation Transfer System for Game Characters
Capturing a real actor's facial performance and having it look right on a fictional game character is a notoriously messy problem. Sony's…
Sony Patents a Paired-Rollback Storage System for Safe Software Updates
Updating software is easy — rolling it back safely when something goes wrong is the hard part. Sony's new patent tackles exactly…
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