Sony Patents “Remastering by Emulation,” Adding 4K, HDR, Better Textures & More Without Touching Game Code

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Could Sony be readying backwards compatibility with the PS5? It seems Sony Interactive Entertainment America, which is the parent company of the PlayStation brand, has patented “remastering by emulation” over at the United States Patent Office.

Spotted byReddit user AlphaFoxWarfare, this patent sounds similar to what Microsoft has done with the Xbox One X enhanced backwards compatibility, by adding 4K resolution, HDR (high dynamic range), better textures and more but without touching the actual game code.

Each asset such as a texture called for by legacy software such as a legacy computer game software has a unique identifier associated with it. The unique identifier can be rendered by imposing a hash on the asset, and then the asset stored with its identifier in a data structure. An artist remasters the textures for presentation on a higher resolution display than envisioned in the original software, and stores them back in the data structure with their identifiers. The original software is then played on the higher resolution display, with asset (such as texture) calls being intercepted, identified, and the data structure entered to retrieve the remastered asset having a matching identifier. The remastered asset is then inserted on the fly into the game presentation.

You can read the full patent filing right here.

Is this for the PS5? One can hope, right?  Just today, we also posted another Sony patent, and this one is about adding a touchscreen to a gaming controller, which could very well be for the PS5’s input method.

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spideynut71
spideynut71
5 years ago

LOL….how the hell can they patent something that Microsoft has been doing with the X since it launched. Just copy MS like you always do, and go about your business, Sony. This is nothing more than a lame attempt to cause problems for MS’s extremely popular and successful BC program, going into next-gen.

wykydytron
wykydytron
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

what ? are you that s….d ? they patented their way of doing it, ms patented theirs. Sorry but you way of thinking is ultra retarded, going by your way of thought M$ should never release any console because Sony did that first… stay salty about having 0 exclusive games on you 500$ toaster

spideynut71
spideynut71
Reply to  wykydytron
5 years ago

I own a Pro, an X1X and a home-built gaming PC , you idiot.

Khalid Aljabry
Khalid Aljabry
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

You’re still an idiot.

Blaugrana
Blaugrana
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

Yeah, yeah and still you have nothing worthy to play. Nutjob71 being a nutjob as always lol

Barry Harden
Barry Harden
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

Successful BC program? Do you even know how Xb360 compatibility works? It’s not even same thing. Most Xb360 titles aren’t even upgraded to 4K. This is how stupid you are in your limited understanding of how game coding works.

Bilal Prince-Ali
Bilal Prince-Ali
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

Sony copying Microsoft! ahahahah you kids are funnyyyy loool

Mega
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

Looks like you forgot how the PS3 improved the visuals of PS2 games via BC. oops

seyfiaslangeinen
seyfiaslangeinen
Reply to  Mega
5 years ago

KillMeBaby 5++

Blaugrana
Blaugrana
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

As usual, the nutjob71 not doing his homework again. Tsk tsk…

cunter
cunter
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

Stop crying

Just a guy
Just a guy
Reply to  spideynut71
5 years ago

Geez, hitting that Microsoft pipe pretty strong today, aren’t we?

I guess you forgot how Microsoft didn’t want us to have physical games this gen and have been playing from behind this entire generation due to idiotic missteps at the launch of the X1.

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