公开(公告)号：US20230141027A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-11

申请号：US18053062

申请日：2022-11-07

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Maurizio Cerrato ,  Mark Jacobus Breugelmans ,  Calum Armstrong

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  G06F3/01

CPC classification number: G06T15/005 ,  G06F3/013

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes allocation circuitry to allocate a graphical feature for a virtual environment to a respective layer from a plurality of respective layers in dependence upon one or more properties for the graphical feature, where the plurality of respective layers comprise a mobile layer and at least one of a mobile re-projection layer and a static re-projection layer, rendering circuitry to render graphical features allocated to respective different layers of the plurality of respective layers with a different rendering quality, and an output image generator to generate an image for display according to a viewpoint of a virtual camera, where the image includes graphical features allocated to respective different layers of the plurality of layers.

公开(公告)号：US20220331704A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-20

申请号：US17718468

申请日：2022-04-12

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Maria Chiara Monti ,  Hugh Alexander Dinsdale Spencer ,  Maurizio Cerrato

IPC: A63F13/86 ,  A63F13/49

Abstract: A method of recording a seamless customised video recording of a video game, the method comprising the steps of: video recording a first run-through of at least a part of the video game; saving a saved-game state of a first game state of the video game, the saved-game state enabling a game state of the video game to be reset to the saved-game state that is at least visually identical to the first game state; detecting, in response to the saving of the saved-game state, a time within the video recording of the first run-through corresponding to the time the saved-game state is saved; video recording, when the game state is reset to the saved-game state, another run-through from the saved-game state; and editing the video recording of the first run-through by replacing some or all the video recording of the first run-through recorded from the detected time with the video recording of the other run-through when the other run-through meets a predetermined preference criterion.

公开(公告)号：US20210183146A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17114596

申请日：2020-12-08

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Fabio Cappello ,  Maurizio Cerrato ,  Rosario Leonardi ,  Gregory James Bedwell ,  Nigel John Williams

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  H04N13/282 ,  H04N13/279 ,  H04N13/117

Abstract: A system for modifying data representing a virtual environment includes: an environment navigation unit operable to control navigation within the virtual environment to generate one or more viewpoints within the virtual environment, an environment identification unit operable to identify one or more aspects of the geometry of the virtual environment visible in the one or more viewpoints, a geometry evaluation unit operable to evaluate the visibility of one or more aspects of the geometry based upon the identification for each of one or more viewpoints, and a data modification unit operable to modify one or more elements of data representing the virtual environment.

公开(公告)号：US20210001216A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US16906198

申请日：2020-06-19

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Matthew William Sanders ,  Fabio Cappello ,  Timothy Bradley ,  Jessica Rose Grant ,  Maurizio Cerrato

IPC: A63F13/352 ,  G06N3/08 ,  A63F13/573 ,  A63F13/525 ,  A63F13/335 ,  A63F13/327 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: A method of generating video frames for a cloud-based video game includes obtaining, via a communications network, a plurality of frames of a video game rendered at a cloud device; obtaining a player input received at an input device, the input device being used to play the video game, the player input being received in response to the display of at least one of the obtained video frames; inputting at least one of the obtained video frames and the player input to a prediction model; and synthesizing, based on the output of the prediction model, a subsequent frame for output at a display, and outputting the synthesized video frame at the display.