US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 17 for "Heuristic-based variable rate shading for mobile games" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,315, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Heuristic-based variable rate shading for mobile games" was invented by Caiqin Li (Shanghai), Yanshan Wen (Shanghai), Yunzhen Li (Shenzhen, China), Yutong Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Xiandang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for heuristic-based variable rate shading for mobile games. A CPU that includes a GPU driver may obtain draw call information for a first frame of a plurality of frames. The first frame may be shaded based on a ...