ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,703, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Imaging Inc. (Vista, Calif.).
"Rendering pipeline for tiled images" was invented by Nickolay Brailko (Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Features are disclosed for rendering an image using a GPU and CPU based rendering pipeline. An imaging system may include a GPU and a CPU that each include a portion of an image renderer. A component of the GPU can process the set of image tiles to generate a texture with a wrapped tile coordinate. A component of the GPU can further store the image data as a level of a texture pyramid. As subsequent image data is received, a componen...