A New Patent From Sony Suggests A Future Where AI Is Predicting Your Next Move To Remove In-Game Lag

Sony patents are a bit of a funny aspect of Sony’s movements to track. On one hand, they can often be a peak into the future of Sony and the technology its developing. On the other, many of the ideas and concepts that get patented just sound crazy, and never actually happen.

The latest patent (spotted by Tech4gamers) to hit the wire falls a bit into both categories. It lays out a method by which Sony would use AI to predict your inputs while you’re playing a game, so that the AI could press the button you’re going to press next for you, so to speak, so that the action can still happen even when you might be experiencing issues with your console, which would otherwise cause your game to lag, and the input be missed.

AI is already everywhere in games. PlayStation’s Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) is an upscaling solution that uses AI to predict the next frame based on the game information it’s collected, so that you can enjoy a smoother framerate, and it’s only the latest upscaling solution on the market.

This patent feels like an evolution of that, from predicting frames to predicting player inputs. “In one particular example, the method may include providing camera input as an input to a machine learning (ML) model. The camera input may indicate the first user command,” the patent’s summary reads.

Will this patent actually make it off this sheet and into the next PlayStation console? Who can really say at this point. It’s a guessing game when it comes to most of Sony’s patents, but it does show how Sony is trying to think of different uses for AI going forward.

Source – [Tech4gamers]