Nintendo har for nylig blankt afvist, at de arbejder på en ny, forbedret Switch-konsol udover den kommende OLED-model. Men det betyder tilsyneladende ikke at de har i sinde at sidde stille, og skal man tro en række nye patentansøgninger, så er der nye Switch-features på vej.
De nye patenter er blevet opdaget af GamingBolt, og kan spores tilbage til marts 2020. Det ene patent beskrever specifikt "a computer system is provided for converting images through use of a trained neural network. A source image is divided into blocks and context data is added to each pixel block. The context blocks are split into channels and each channel from the same context block is added to the same activation matrix. The action matrix is then executed against a trained neural network to produce a changed activation matrix. The changed activation matrix is then used to generate a converted image."
Ikke bare det, der står derudover at teknologien kan transformere "a 540p image to a 1080p image, the techniques herein may be applied to other image sizes (e.g., 720p to 1080p; 480p to 1080p, 1080p to 1440p, 1080p to 4k/3840×2160, 720p to 4k, etc.)."
Det lyder lidt som Nvidia DLSS, og Nvidia nævnes også specifikt i patentansøgningen. Ikke bare det, der er også tilsyneladende en Quick Resume-agtig feature:
"In a game apparatus in which game programs for a plurality of games each including a title scene and a play scene are stored in a storage medium, a game to be executed is switched in a predetermined order by a user operating a first input device. At a time of the switching, in the case where a currently executed game is in the play scene, the game is interrupted and switching is performed to another game, and, when the game is executed again later, the game is restarted from the time of the interruption of the play scene, and a first image showing the game is displayed on a display. Meanwhile, in the case where the currently executed game is in the title scene, switching is performed to another game, and then when the game is executed again, the game is restarted from the title scene without displaying the first image."