US Patent Issued to Nintendo on Aug. 5 for "Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing image processing program, image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,529, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing image processing program, image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Ayumu Kato (Kai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary image processing system first writes normal line information and color information into the G buffer and depth information into the depth buffer for a first object. Next, at a time of writing the normal line information into the G buffer for a second object, the exemplary image processing system calculates a difference ...