ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,131, issued on May 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Determining contour edges for an image" was invented by Selim Dogru (Beaverton, Ore.), Kumara Sastry (Portland, Ore.), John Swanson (Banks, Ore.) and Vivek K. Singh (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to determine contour edges within a provided image, a plurality of image cells (e.g., groupings of pixels) are created within the image. For each image cell, a numerical value for each of the pixels is compared to a predetermined threshold value to determine comparison values for each pixel. A total numerical value for each image cell may the...