Patents by Inventor Owen James ANSWER

Owen James ANSWER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Image processing via multi-sample anti-aliasing
    Patent number: 11353703
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for an image generated for display by a head mountable display device include: defining a 2×2 pixel mask pattern for a region of the image, indicating the location of one or more pixels and corresponding masked pixels within the 2×2 pixel mask pattern; adapting a multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) scheme to sample at one quarter resolution on a regular grid; sampling values using the adapted MSAA scheme to render the one or more respective pixels indicated by the 2×2 pixel mask, so as to generate a region of the image comprising one or more rendered pixels and corresponding missing pixels; and dilating one or more of the respective pixels to fill in the one or more missing pixels within the region of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Richard Milner-Moore, Owen James Answer
  • IMAGE PROCESSING
    Publication number: 20200018965
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for an image generated for display by a head mountable display device include: defining a 2×2 pixel mask pattern for a region of the image, indicating the location of one or more pixels and corresponding masked pixels within the 2×2 pixel mask pattern; adapting a multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) scheme to sample at one quarter resolution on a regular grid; sampling values using the adapted MSAA scheme to render the one or more respective pixels indicated by the 2×2 pixel mask, so as to generate a region of the image comprising one or more rendered pixels and corresponding missing pixels; and dilating one or more of the respective pixels to fill in the one or more missing pixels within the region of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Richard MILNER-MOORE, Owen James ANSWER