ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,539, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Detecting keypoints in image data" was invented by David R. Pope (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detecting keypoints in image data may include an image sensor interface receiving pixel data from an image sensor. A front-end pixel data processing circuit may receive pixel data and convert the pixel data to a different color space format. A back-end pixel data processing circuit may perform one or more operations on the pixel data. An output circuit may receive pixel data and output the pixel data to a system memory. A keypoin...