ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,848, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Scaler de-ringing in image processing circuitry" was invented by Mahesh B. Chappalli (San Jose, Calif.) and Vincent Z. Young (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems include receiving, at de-ringing circuitry of a display pipeline of an electronic device, scaled image content based on image data. The de-ringing circuitry also receives a fallback scaler output. The de-ringing circuitry determines whether the image data has a change frequency greater than a threshold. In response to the change frequency being above the threshold, the de-ri...