A US legal patent, filed by Nintendo in July 2023 and made public on December 31 2024, has revealed an interesting new feature that may be used in the Switch 2.
This machine learning method allows hardware, in layman’s terms, to fill the gaps in video game graphics.
The patent itself, which you can read here, is quite technical in its descriptions and illustrative diagrams.
As accessibility consultant Laura Kate Dale points out on Bluesky, the patent states this tech could reduce the size of games, to better fit on “smaller capacity physical media”.