Amid the rumours of a more powerful Switch model with 4K capabilities, Nintendo has filed some interesting patents. The two patents are for “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNED IMAGE CONVERSION”. What this means is AI upscaling similar to Nvidia’s DLSS and Intel’s XeSS. According to the patents, the methods can be accelerated by matrix multiplication hardware, like Nvidia’s Tensor Cores
The patents were published today and list the inventors are being from France, which indicated NERD is the developer.
You can view the patents here
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNED IMAGE CONVERSION – NINTENDO CO., LTD.
www.freepatentsonline.comSYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNED IMAGE CONVERSION – NINTENDO CO., LTD.
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Its important to note that companies file patents all the time and this may end up being nothing.
Update:
It seems the patents were not granted to Nintendo at this time