By James Scout/ Oct 17, 2022
A recent patent filing from Sony described a special new frame rate compensation method that could supplement G-Sync and FreeSync technologies.
New Patent Reduce Frame Rate
According to the company's latest patent listing, Sony appears to be working on a special frame rate compensation feature. With high-frame-rate gaming becoming increasingly commonplace, technologies such as FreeSync have been developed to combat screen tearing in varying ways.
New Patent Reduce Frame Rate
Screen tearing can be significantly reduced, and overall gameplay smoothness is improved thanks to this feature, which dynamically synchronizes the refresh rate of the television or monitor to the console's frame rate output.
New Patent Reduce Frame Rate
A new Sony patent filing suggests that the VRR support for the PlayStation 5 may eventually need to be updated.
New Patent Reduce Frame Rate
In some instances, as the patent describes, the entire frame scanout and compensation process could be offloaded to a dedicated coprocessor, which might be related to Sony's most recent multi-GPU hardware patent.
New Patent Reduce Frame Rate
Tech-minded gamers will know that much, as with the recent browser-based cloud gaming patent from Sony, and input latency could be an issue that Sony might need to grapple with.
New Patent Reduce Frame Rate