Sony patents game graphics that guess frames while waiting for server
Sony describes a method for video games where the console creates a rough guess of the next picture using your last button presses and previous images. It then uses data from a remote server to fix and finish that picture, making the game look smooth even if the connection is slow.
In the filing’s own words
A computer implemented method of generating updated video data for use in a computer game is disclosed. The method comprises partially rendering (S 17) an updated video frame based on previous motion vectors and/or previous controller inputs (S 16) and at least one existing frame of video data (S 13). The method also comprises receiving (S 18) real updated video data from a remote server, and completing (S 19) rendering of the updated video frame.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer implemented method of generating video data for use in a computer game, the method comprising: generating first data based on second data and third data, wherein the second data represents at least one input signal from a user of the computer game and the third data represents at least one existing frame of video data of the computer game, and wherein the first data represents at least part of at least one estimated updated said frame of said video data; receiving fourth data from a remote device, wherein the fourth data is useable to generate at least one updated said frame of said video data; and generating, based on said first data and said fourth data, at least one updated frame of said video data.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited)
- Official title
- VIDEO IMAGE RENDERING BASED ON MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION
- Publication number
- US20260273397A1
- Application number
- 19556563
- Filed
- Mar 4, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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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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