ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,761, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).
"Progressive refinement video enhancement" was invented by Andrew James Bigos (London) and Daniel Montero Motilla (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for improving a resolution of an image frame is described. The image frame is part of a data stream. The data stream may be a video game, for example. The method comprising the following steps. Sending an encoded version of the image frame from a server to a client device via a first communication channel between the server and the client device. Detecting a reduced bandwi...