ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,612, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sharp Growth (Canada) Ltd. (Toronto).

"Upscaling based on multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA)" was invented by Bo Li (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry (e.g., GPU) obtains a first MSAA intermediate buffer from a rendering of a first image, the first MSAA intermediate buffer includes a plurality of subsamples for each pixel of the first image. The processing circuitry determines, for a first pixel of the first image, a first surrounding subsample pattern based on first subsamples in a surrounding region of the first pixel. Further, the processing circuitry obtain...