It seems like Nintendo is looking at a number of different ways to improve the Switch’s image quality as the system continues to age. The Nintendo Switch’s internal hardware has remained largely unchanged since the system launched in March 2017. A patent filed by the company in June 2022 appears to go some way towards improving the system’s image quality. The patent could be related to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as one of its inventors is Akashi Miyagi, who previously worked as a sub-director with Kentaro Tominagaon on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and is thought to play a role in the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The patent is for “an image processing method for expressing objects with transparency with low processing overhead.”
