ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,296, issued on June 10, was assigned to BLACK SESAME TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cache-based warp engine" was invented by Ying Zhou (Cupertino, Calif.), Hui Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jingyuan Li (Guangzhou, China) and Yanfang Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an image warping system capable of quickly performing image warping with low costs by using a cache memory, and a method thereof. The image warping system is provided to generate a transformed image by warping an input image with the help of a cache based WARP engine. The WARP engine accesses the input image and loads a po...