US 12,333,632 B2
Image processing system and method
Patrick John Connor, London (GB)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/161,961.
Claims priority of application No. 2201584 (GB), filed on Feb. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0252693 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 11/001 (2013.01) [A63F 13/52 (2014.09); G06T 1/20 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
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1. An image processing system operable to generate one or more images for display, the system comprising:
a processor and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the image processing system to:
render one or more of a plurality of textures using flexible scale rasterization, FSR, wherein FSR includes a method by which image content is generated using a varying rasterization rate for different areas of the image content, with the rate being dependent upon the position of each area within the image content;
generate metadata indicating one or more properties of the FSR used to render a corresponding texture;
to read the metadata, and modify a shader to enable a texture sampling to be performed that includes an FSR resolve where the metadata indicates that a corresponding texture has been rendered with FSR; and
generate an image for display using at least one modified shader, the generated image including one or more of the plurality of textures.