Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Video game overlay
- Patent Title (中): 视频游戏叠加
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Application No.: US12826130Application Date: 2010-06-29
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Publication No.: US08968087B1Publication Date: 2015-03-03
- Inventor: Andrew Buchanan Gault , David Perry , Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira
- Applicant: Andrew Buchanan Gault , David Perry , Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira
- Applicant Address: US CA San Mateo
- Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
- Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Mateo
- Agency: Martine Penilla Group, LLP
- Main IPC: A63F9/24
- IPC: A63F9/24

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.
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