ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,844, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SHARP GROWTH (CANADA) Ltd. (Toronto).
"G-buffer compression" was invented by Bo Li (Brossard, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for geometry buffer compression includes generating, based on geometry information of pixels in a frame, compressed geometry information for buffering in a geometry buffer (G-buffer). The compressed geometry information includes first texture component for first pixels and omits the first texture component for at least a second pixel. The second pixel has one or more neighboring pixels in the first pixels. Further, the method includes accessing the geometr...