US Patent Issued to GoPro on Aug. 12 for "Methods and apparatus for hardware accelerated image processing for spherical projections" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,286, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for hardware accelerated image processing for spherical projections" was invented by William Edward MacDonald (San Diego), Kyler William Schwartz (Oceanside, Calif.) and David A. Newman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for image processing of spherical content via hardware acceleration components. In one embodiment, an EAC image is subdivided into facets via existing software addressing and written into the memory buffers (normally used for rectilinear cubemaps) in a graphics processing unit (GPU). The EAC fac...