Netflix has 1 granted patent in 1 category: Cloud Gaming (1). The patent covers a batch-frame rendering technique for cloud gaming that processes multiple game frames simultaneously on a GPU.
This approach amortizes fixed processing costs across frames, allowing for efficient upscaling and frame generation when Streaming games at lower resolutions to end users.
Netflix's single cloud gaming patent tackles a cost efficiency problem that emerges when applying machine learning upscalers to streamed games. The technique combines multiple frames from one or more game processes into a single combined image, then applies upscaling and frame generation operations to that batch before separating the results back into individual frames. This batching strategy distributes the fixed overhead of ML-based upscalers like DLSS across multiple frames rather than paying that cost for each frame independently, which matters particularly at the low resolutions and frame rates typical of cloud game Streaming where per-frame processing becomes prohibitively expensive.
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