US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Dec. 2 for "Capturing computer game output mid-render for 2D to 3D conversion, accessibility, and other effects" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,346, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Capturing computer game output mid-render for 2D to 3D conversion, accessibility, and other effects" was invented by Steven Osman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Important information with respect to image generation such as computer game video generation can be lost once the full image is composed. To avoid this, a customized capture script is created for a computer game to specify what to capture, for future use, in the middle of rendering a game video frame, such as frame buffer, depth buffer, stencil buffers, etc. The script also...