US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 27 for "Neural texture block compression" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,173, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural texture block compression" was invented by Shin Fujieda (Tokyo) and Takahiro Harada (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Neural Texture Block Compression (NTBC) of graphics textures using neural networks are disclosed. NTBC employs multi-layer perceptron (MLP) networks to map uncompressed textures to block-compressed formats, such as BC1 and BC4, achieving storage reductions while maintaining reasonable visual quality. The methods and systems use MLPs to compress textures in BC1 and BC4 formats. A fi...