Sony patents mixed reality that adapts to your physical surroundings
Sony has filed a patent for a method that creates a mixed reality experience by first analyzing data about the user's physical space. The system identifies specific features of the room or environment and then adjusts elements of the virtual overlay to match those real-world conditions.
In the filing’s own words
There is provided method of providing an extended reality environment, the method comprising obtaining user environment data relating to the physical environment of a user electronic device, processing the user environment data to identify at least one attribute of the physical environment of a user electronic device, rendering a mixed reality environment, wherein at least one element of the mixed reality environment is adjusted based on the at least one attribute, and providing the rendered mixed environment to the user electronic device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer implemented method of providing an extended reality environment, the method comprising: obtaining, via a computing device, user environment data relating to the physical environment of at least one user electronic device; processing the user environment data to identify at least one attribute of the physical environment of the at least one user electronic device; rendering an extended reality environment, wherein at least one element of the mixed reality environment is adjusted based on the at least one attribute; and providing the rendered extended reality environment to the at least one user electronic device.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited)
- Official title
- EXTENDED REALITY ENVIRONMENT
- Publication number
- US20260289921A1
- Application number
- 19555338
- Filed
- Mar 3, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 19/006 Physics & computingG06T 15/506 Physics & computingG06T 19/20 Physics & computingG06V 20/20 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20081 Physics & computingG06T 2219/2004 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AR, VR & displays
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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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