Invention Application
- Patent Title: Video Game Overlay
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Application No.: US15396169Application Date: 2016-12-30
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Publication No.: US20170106281A1Publication Date: 2017-04-20
- Inventor: Andrew Buchanan Gault , David Perry , Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira
- Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
- Main IPC: A63F13/355
- IPC: A63F13/355 ; A63F13/30 ; A63F13/327 ; A63F13/32 ; H04L29/08 ; A63F13/335 ; A63F13/213 ; A63F13/2145 ; H04N19/46 ; A63F13/45 ; A63F13/33

Abstract:
A video server is configured to provide streaming video to players of computer games over a computing network. The video server can provided video of different games to different players simultaneously. This is accomplished by rendering several video streams in parallel using a single GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). The output of the GPU is provided to graphics processing pipelines that are each associated with a specific client/player and are dynamically allocated as needed. A client qualifier may be used to assure that only clients capable of presenting the streaming video to a player at a minimum level of quality receive the video stream. Video frames provided by the video server optionally include overlays added to the output of the GPU. These overlays can include voice data received from another game player.
Public/Granted literature
- US10173134B2 Video game overlay Public/Granted day:2019-01-08
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