Sony patents LED screens that show unique views to each person in a room
Sony describes a system using active shutter glasses and motion tracking to display different video angles to each participant on a shared LED screen. The glasses sync with the screen to show each person only their specific sub-frame, creating a personalized perspective for everyone in the space.
In the filing’s own words
Tracking and displaying personalized views of participants including: a plurality of pairs of active shutter glasses to be worn by the participants and is synchronized to an LED screen, wherein a shutter for each eye of each pair of the active shutter glasses is configured to allow light to transmit to each eye only during a correct sub-frame and block the light during all other sub-frames; a motion capture system to detect positions of the participants by tracking the plurality of pairs of active shutter glasses to generate tracking data; a plurality of render nodes coupled to the LED screen; a central controller to receive the tracking data to trigger discrete render processes of the plurality of render nodes for unique perspective of each participant, wherein the triggered discrete render processes render and transmit video in parallel to display video streams as sub-frames on the LED screen.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1.- 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- MULTI-USER PERSPECTIVE PROJECTION IN LOCATION-BASED ENTERTAINMENT
- Publication number
- US20260322991A1
- Application number
- 19380842
- Filed
- Nov 5, 2025
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
H04N 13/368 Electricity & electronicsG09G 3/2092 Physics & computingG09G 3/32 Physics & computingH04N 13/341 Electricity & electronicsH04N 13/398 Electricity & electronicsG09G 2310/06 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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