Recently a new one was discovered patent Scored by Nintendo noting a Image quality improvementfor application to Nintendo Switch and may relate to The Legend of Zelda: Kingdom’s Tears.
The patent dates back to June 2022 as a registration but was recently discovered and seems to introduce a technology that manipulates the image in order to improve the quality of the final graphics, without the need to make changes to the hardware used, in this case Nintendo Switch.
The description, as always in these cases, is very vague and not very technical, so it fails to give an exact idea of how the technique works, however it does talk about “a way of processing images that allows you to show objects using transparencies Reduce workload in general processing.
It therefore appears to be a system for improving image quality, particularly with regard to transparency effects, without the need to overload hardware processors, or using a software methodology perhaps similar to machine learning solutions.
What links this patent to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the fact that one of the inventors of this technology is Akashi Miyagiwho previously worked on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and who also had an important role in the development of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the New Kingdom, which can therefore use this system.
