Sony patents system that sends smart textures to reduce gaming lag
Sony describes a server that uses machine learning to create compact 'texture models' for 3D objects. Instead of sending full images, the server sends these models to a player's device, which then calculates the correct colors based on the player's current view.
In the filing’s own words
A content server renders images of objects which are visible from a virtual camera, and generates learning textures for the respective objects. The content server generates learning textures while setting the virtual camera in different positions and directions, performs machine learning according to the learning textures to generate, for each object, a texture model configured to acquire a color value from UV coordinates and a direction, and transmits the texture models to a client terminal. By using the texture model, the client terminal generates a display image representing an object with a color corresponding to a viewpoint at a time immediately before display.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A content server comprising: at least one processor; and a memory device storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content server to: acquire, from a client terminal information of a display viewpoint specifying a display image representing a three-dimensional display world; generate a plurality of textures for learning representing color value distributions on a surface of an object, by rendering images of the object viewed from a plurality of viewpoints for learning generated according to the display viewpoint; generate, by machine learning using the textures for learning, a texture model configured to output a color value according to a viewpoint change; and transmit the texture model and geometry data of the display world, associated with one another, to the client terminal.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- CONTENT SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, RENDERING DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND DISPLAY IMAGE GENERATION METHOD
- Publication number
- US20260268586A1
- Application number
- 19663099
- Filed
- Apr 29, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 15/20 Physics & computingG06T 15/04 Physics & computingMore 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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