US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Front-end scaler circuit for processing demosaiced image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,511, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Front-end scaler circuit for processing demosaiced image data" was invented by Sarvesh Swami (San Jose, Calif.), David R Pope (Campbell, Calif.) and Sheng Lin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a front-end scaler circuit configured to receive and process demosaiced image data in different modes depending on if the demosaiced image data was demosaiced from Bayer or Quad Bayer raw image data. The front-end scaler circuit shares memory with a demosaicing circuit, and is configured to perform different operations that use differ...