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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2022
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gabriel Lassonde, Montreal, CA;
Joseph Logan Olson, San Mateo, CA (US);
Olivier Carignan, Montreal, CA;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.09); G06T 11/001 (2013.01);
Abstract
A graphics shader takes in two grayscale images (called 'masks') and four colors and generates a full-color image. The logic behind the shader is two-fold. First, separating the colors from the image enables a greater variety of images (for example, change one color to get different colored brick walls), and secondly, two grayscale masks take up less space in memory than a full-color image. A script that uses differentiable programming and gradient descent “finds” the masks and colors for a target image.