Sony's frame patent is a method. It is not a measured console.

A granted method, dated September 29

The patent record for generation super sampling lists U.S. 12,749,147 B2, granted September 29, 2026, on an application filed December 21, 2023. The assignee is Sony Interactive Entertainment. The abstract says the system builds an image-frame embedding from one frame and predicts a synthetic next frame from that embedding, then shows the synthetic frame after the real one. A patent grant means an examiner allowed the claims. It does not mean a factory is building the circuit. The hardware desk files the document. It does not file a console that the document does not name.the hardware desk.

What TechSpot will and will not say

TechSpot's October 18 article describes the system as predicting a frame while the graphics hardware renders the next real one, using the latest finished frame and, optionally, motion vectors and controller input. It says some frame-generation methods wait for two finished frames and that the wait adds latency. It also says the patent includes no performance measurements, so effects on latency and image quality are unproven. That last sentence is the one this page adopts. The description of the pipeline is TechSpot's reading of the filing.Futureweb.

Fifteen milliseconds is a quotation, not a score

Wccftech, on October 16, quotes patent language about user input made within about 15 milliseconds of the last image, or shortly before it, so a button press can be tied to the frames that follow. The outlet treats that as a way to cut input delay and compares the idea to rollback in fighting games. The comparison is the outlet's. The quotation is useful because it shows the patent discusses controller input. It is not a measurement of delay on a television.the paper.

A product name is an outlet's expectation

Nothing in the abstract says PlayStation 5, PlayStation 6, or a shipping GPU. A headline that puts the method on a future console is labeling an expectation. This page will keep the expectation in the outlet's column. The assignee is a PlayStation company, which is why the outlets make the leap. Corporate identity is not a release date. Asked directly, What does TechSpot say is missing? Performance measurements. The October 18 article says the filing does not establish latency or image quality, and it distinguishes the method from frame generation that waits for two finished frames.an evaluation a second lab can run.

Encoder and decoder, as the articles agree

Both TechSpot and Wccftech describe a jointly trained encoder and decoder. The encoder turns a rendered frame into a compact embedding. The decoder produces the predicted frame. Optional inputs are motion vectors and recent controller state. During play, the articles say, this path runs beside the ordinary renderer and can fill the display buffer before the next real frame is ready. Agreement between two articles is agreement about the patent's description. It is not a demo reel.what a version number has to mean.

No frame rate, no wattage, no SKU

The record this brief uses does not print frames per second, a power draw, or a chip name. Adding any of those would invent a spec sheet. A later Sony product page that cites the patent number and prints a frame rate would be the document that promotes the method from a claim to a feature. That page is not among today's sources. Asked directly, What does Wccftech add that the abstract does not? A reading that the method is meant to cut input delay, plus a quotation about controller input within about 15 milliseconds of the last frame. That timing is Wccftech's quotation from the patent text, not a lab result.

What this page will re-check

A product brief that names patent 12,749,147. A correction if the grant date or the assignee is amended. A measurement, by Sony or by a lab, of delay and image quality. Until then the patent is the method, TechSpot is the account that flags the missing numbers, and Wccftech is the account that quotes the input window. Asked directly, What does the abstract say the method does? It generates an embedding from a first frame and predicts a synthetic second frame from that embedding, then displays the synthetic frame after the first. That is the whole abstract. It does not name a console or a frame rate.RTX prices, a different rumor.

Who is in scope

Readers who saw an October headline about PlayStation frame generation and need the document underneath it. Game developers are not required to implement the method. A patent is an exclusive claim, not a standard other companies must follow. The short answer this page will stand on is this: U.S. patent 12,749,147, assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment and granted September 29, 2026, describes an encoder that embeds a rendered frame and a decoder that predicts a following synthetic frame. TechSpot, on October 18, says the patent includes no performance measurements. The patent does not say a PlayStation product ships the method.

What stays specific

Application 18/393,547, filed December 21, 2023. Grant US 12,749,147 B2 on September 29, 2026. Inventor Denis Dupeyron. Assignee Sony Interactive Entertainment. A synthetic frame predicted from the previous one. No performance table in the accounts this page trusts for that absence. Asked directly, What is the patent number and the grant date? U.S. 12,749,147 B2, granted September 29, 2026. The application is 18/393,547, filed December 21, 2023. The inventor listed is Denis Dupeyron. The assignee is Sony Interactive Entertainment.