US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Dec. 2 for "Image processing system and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,420, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system and method" was invented by Maria Chiara Monti (London) and Michael Eder (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content rendering and display system operable to display content to a viewer, the system comprising a rendering unit operable to render an image having a first resolution in a first render pass, and to generate supplementary information in additional render passes, wherein the rendered image and the supplementary information are stored in a multi-layer image structure, an upsampling unit operable to perform an upsam...