Patent ID: 9682321
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06T,G09G

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: displaying a previously-rendered version of a scene object as part of a frame of a video game, the scene object representative of visual scenery in the frame, the scene object being displayed on a display device of a computing device; performing, via the computing device, visual processing for the scene object during display of the frame to enable display of the scene object to update in a subsequent frame and without updating display of one or more visual aspects of the scene object in the frame, the visual processing including one or more of color processing, texture processing, depth processing, or light processing; updating, in the frame, display of an avatar from the video game, the avatar being representative of an object in the frame that is directly controllable responsive to a received input to the computing device, the avatar being displayed on the display device of the computing device; and applying the visual processing performed during display of the frame to the one or more visual aspects of the scene object in the subsequent frame of the video game as a single rendering operation to cause display of the scene object to be updated in the subsequent frame.