US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on June 17 for "Image processing system and method" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,632, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system and method" was invented by Patrick John Connor (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system operable to generate one or more images for display, the system comprising a rendering unit operable to render one or more of a plurality of textures using flexible scale rasterization, FSR, a metadata generation unit operable to generate metadata indicating one or more properties of the FSR used to render a corresponding texture, a shader compiler operable to read the metadata, and to modify a shader to enable a ...