ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,132, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Full green interpolation in remosaicing Bayer pattern" was invented by Yiyi Ren (Cupertino, Calif.), Lei Fan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Wenshou Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for full interpolating green pixels from an input image having a first minimum repeating unit comprising 4x4 pixels, where 2x2 pixels of same color are grouped together, comprises down sampling of the input image to a first down sampled image, down sampling of the input image to a second down sampled image, and interpolating green pixels...