Sony patents system that switches game graphics between phone and server
Sony describes a method for a server to decide where to draw the images for a user's screen. The system checks what the user is looking at and whether their device can handle the graphics, then chooses to render the image locally on the device or remotely on the server.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing device is an information processing device that is communicably provided with a user terminal and executes a content for the user terminal, and includes a control unit. The control unit acquires an internal state of a content space from the user terminal. Furthermore, the control unit extracts a target object included in a field of view of a user at present or in the near future on the basis of the internal state. Furthermore, the control unit determines whether rendering the content space by a known object of the user terminal is possible on the basis of the target object. Furthermore, the control unit selects, in a case where it is determined that the rendering is possible, first rendering by the user terminal as a rendering method. Furthermore, the control unit selects, in a case where it is determined that the rendering is not possible, second rendering by the information processing device as the rendering method.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device that is communicably provided with a user terminal and executes a content for the user terminal, the information processing device comprising a control unit that acquires an internal state of a content space from the user terminal, extracts a target object included in a field of view of a user at present or in the near future on the basis of the internal state, determines whether rendering of the content space by a known object of the user terminal is possible on the basis of the target object, selects, in a case where it is determined that the rendering is possible, first rendering by the user terminal as a rendering method, and selects, in a case where it is determined that the rendering is not possible, second rendering by the information processing device as the rendering method.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
- Publication number
- US20260263923A1
- Application number
- 19167817
- Filed
- Feb 21, 2024
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 10
Classified under
A63F 13/355 Human necessitiesG06T 7/73 Physics & computingG06T 15/20 Physics & computingH04L 67/131 Electricity & electronicsA63F 13/837 Human necessitiesMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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