Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC Patent Application Trends in 2025

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC patent applications in 2025

Top 10 Technology Areas

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• A63F13/67 (adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use)
  • Count: 8 patents
  • Example: 20250041733. MODIFYING GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCES (SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC)
• A63F2300/538 (for performing operations on behalf of the game client, e.g. rendering)
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250065229. MACHINE LEARNING DRIVEN RESOURCE ALLOCATION (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• A63F13/79 (CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR)
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250041733. MODIFYING GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCES (SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC)
• A63F13/355 (CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR)
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250065229. MACHINE LEARNING DRIVEN RESOURCE ALLOCATION (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• A63F13/5375 (for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game)
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20250041733. MODIFYING GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCES (SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC)
• G06T9/00 (Image coding (bandwidth or redundancy reduction for static pictures)
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20250054194. RATE-DISTORTION-OPTIMIZATION (RDO) VIA BIT-RATE REDUCTION (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• A63F13/35 (CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR)
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250001313. METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROSS-PLATFORM MULTIPLAYER SESSION SHARE (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• G06T17/20 (Finite element generation, e.g. wire-frame surface description, {tesselation})
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250005859. SHAPING NEURAL RADIANCE FIELD (NERF) GENERATION USING MULTIPLE POLYGONAL MESHES (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• G06T15/04 (Texture mapping)
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250018286. MANUAL SWITCHING BETWEEN GAME MODES WITH FADE (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• G06T15/06 (Ray-tracing)
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20250018286. MANUAL SWITCHING BETWEEN GAME MODES WITH FADE (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)

Emerging Technology Areas

• H04N21/816 ({involving special video data, e.g 3D video})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250106370. Systems and Methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven 2D-to-3D Video Stream Conversion (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• H04N21/2187 (Live feed)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250106370. Systems and Methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven 2D-to-3D Video Stream Conversion (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• H04N13/194 (Transmission of image signals)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250106370. Systems and Methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven 2D-to-3D Video Stream Conversion (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• H04N13/161 (Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components (for multi-view video sequence encoding)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250106370. Systems and Methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven 2D-to-3D Video Stream Conversion (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• H04N13/139 (Format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250106370. Systems and Methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven 2D-to-3D Video Stream Conversion (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• G06T2210/12 (IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104327. HIGH PRECISION NORMAL MAP COMPRESSION USING WRAPPED OCTAHEDRAL MAPPING (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• G06T2210/08 (IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104284. HIGH QUALITY TRANSCODE-EFFICIENT TEXTURE FORMAT (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• H04N19/198 (using optimisation based on Lagrange multipliers)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104284. HIGH QUALITY TRANSCODE-EFFICIENT TEXTURE FORMAT (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• H04N19/186 (PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104284. HIGH QUALITY TRANSCODE-EFFICIENT TEXTURE FORMAT (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)
• H04N19/129 (Scanning of coding units, e.g. zig-zag scan of transform coefficients or flexible macroblock ordering [FMO])
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104284. HIGH QUALITY TRANSCODE-EFFICIENT TEXTURE FORMAT (Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC)

Top Inventors

• Thomas Madams of Seattle WA (US) (5 patents)
• Celeste Bean of San Mateo CA (US) (4 patents)
• Steven Osman of San Mateo CA (US) (4 patents)
• Olga Rudi of San Mateo CA (US) (3 patents)
• Joseph Logan Olson of Glendale CA (US) (3 patents)
• Nasir Mohammad Khalid (3 patents)
• Sarah Karp of San Mateo CA (US) (3 patents)
• Alex Zvenigorodsky of Redwood City CA (US) (3 patents)
• Elizabeth Juenger of San Mateo CA (US) (3 patents)
• Lachmin Singh of San Mateo CA (US) (2 patents)

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