Sony Interactive Entertainment Assigned Patent

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11759712) developed by Withey; Robert Keith John, Biggleswade, Great Britain, and Connor; Patrick John, London, Great Britain, for “data storage system and method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of data storage includes associating delta colour compression DCC metadata with one or more tiles of graphics data, selecting one or more such tiles that are uniform in colour and hence can be accurately represented by the DCC metadata for that tile, and replacing some or all of the graphics data in one or more selected tiles with different data.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-01-21 (17/154248).