US Patent Issued to Apple on July 22 for "Circuit for combined down sampling and correction of image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,545, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Circuit for combined down sampling and correction of image data" was invented by Chihsin Wu (San Jose, Calif.), David R. Pope (Campbell, Calif.), Sheng Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Amnon D Silverstein (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foveated down sampling and correction (FDS-C) circuit for combined down sampling and correction of chromatic aberrations in images. The FDS-C circuit performs down sampling and interpolation of pixel values of a first subset of pixels of a color in a raw image using down sampling scale factors and first interpolatio...