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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2022
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Kevin Andrew De Zeng Myers, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Michael Jonathan Uhlik, Austin, TX (US);
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
The present specification describes systems and methods for dynamically modulating a resolution of shadows corresponding to lights in a frame of a video game scene. The shadows are generated by a module executed at least in part on a player's computing device in data communication with at least one host computer. A memory budget, also referred to as an allocated memory, is first defined. A size of each of the shadow maps corresponding to the lights is determined. An overall size of the shadow maps is also determined, along with a composite scaling factor for each of the lights. The composite scaling factor is applied across each of the shadows maps if the overall size exceeds a predefined threshold percentage of the memory budget.