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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2012
Clive Henrick, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Benjamin Taller, Berkeley, CA (US);
Raymond Cook, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Clive Henrick, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Benjamin Taller, Berkeley, CA (US);
Raymond Cook, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Kabam, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A quadrant based PNG image file may be used to encode compressed map information for a game map that is navigated during gameplay. The PNG image file encoded with compressed map information may be communicated to a gameplay device, which may decompress and decode the PNG image file to obtain the map information and generate the game map. Leveraging the lossless compression capabilities of the PNG image file format or other lossless image file format may reduce storage requirements and/or network bandwidth when playing the video game. Each pixel of the PNG image file may be used to encode multiple map tiles, allowing game maps to scale to large sizes while further leveraging the advantages of encoding the map information into the image file.