BlackNMild2k1 said:
You got a link to that patent?
Yeah but most of it is old stuff like I'm reading stuff right now that relates to the original wiimote and the first ds. Nothing particularly exciting though if you wanna read the one about a portable device that can carry a select portion of a game image from a console. It also talks about printing out a game image which I don't understand. Here's some interesting quotes:
"the arbitrarily selected part of the object image is stored not as the image data indicative of the image itself but as its transition information which is far smaller in data amount than the image data itself. The selected object image is then recovered based on the stored transition information with the object image generation program. Therefore, since the amount of data to be stored and reproduced is small, it is possible to store and recover more images at higher speed.
In a preferred embodiment described later, the object image generation program is stored in ROM, and
the transition information storage device may be constructed of rewritable non-volatile memory. In this case, since the transition information storage device is constructed of rewritable non-volatile memory, the transition information stored in the transition information storage device is updated."
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7924293.html
it also has images of the process in a linked pdf. I'm not suggesting there's anything useful there so don't think I'm pushing rumors.
