US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 2 for "Auto-generated shader masks and parameters" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,424, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

"Auto-generated shader masks and parameters" was invented by Gabriel Lassonde (Montreal), Joseph Logan Olson (San Mateo, Calif.) and Olivier Carignan (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics shader takes in two grayscale images (called "masks") and four colors and generates a full-color image. The logic behind the shader is two-fold. First, separating the colors from the image enables a greater variety of images (for example, change one color to get different colored brick walls), and secondly, two grayscale masks take up less space in memory than ...