Sony patents cloud tool for editing game visuals on your own device
Sony describes a system where a cloud server pulls specific visual parts from a video game and sends them to a player's device. The player can then edit these parts locally using a game editing app, and the server puts the changed pieces back into the game world.
In the filing’s own words
A method performed by a cloud server system includes selecting, responsive to a request from a client device, an asset of a video game application, the asset comprising a visual element rendered in a first virtual environment of the video game application. The method also includes extracting from the asset, sub-asset data associated with one or more characteristics of the visual element. The method also includes transmitting the sub-asset data to the client device for local editing performed using a game editing application on the client device to thereby generate a modified sub-asset. The method also includes reintegrating the modified sub-asset into the asset of the video game application.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a cloud server system, the method comprising: selecting, responsive to a request from a client device, an asset of a video game application, the asset comprising a visual element rendered in a first virtual environment of the video game application; extracting from the asset, sub-asset data associated with one or more characteristics of the visual element; transmitting the sub-asset data to the client device for local editing performed using a game editing application on the client device to thereby generate a modified sub-asset; and reintegrating the modified sub-asset into the asset of the video game application.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- AI-ASSISTED ASSET SEPARATION, EDITING, AND REINTEGRATION
- Publication number
- US20260273396A1
- Application number
- 19078908
- Filed
- Mar 13, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/355 Human necessitiesA63F 13/358 Human necessitiesA63F 13/52 Human necessitiesA63F 13/67 Human necessitiesG06F 40/30 Physics & computingMore from Sony in Games & media
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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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