US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on June 23 for "Machine learning techniques to create higher resolution compressed data structures representing textures from lower resolution compressed data structures and training therefor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,610, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Machine learning techniques to create higher resolution compressed data structures representing textures from lower resolution compressed data structures and training therefor" was invented by Joshua Scott Hobson (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning is used to generate a first mipmap of a texture having a first compression based on a second mipmap of the same texture and having a second compression without using compression or decompression in generating the first mipmap. The first mipmap can then be used to ...