US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 18 for "Block matching window search instruction using a graphics processing unit (GPU) texture pipeline" (Massachusetts, California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,866, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Block matching window search instruction using a graphics processing unit (GPU) texture pipeline" was invented by Elina Kamenetskaya (Belmont, Mass.), Liang Li (San Diego), Jonathan Wicks (Superior, Colo.) and Samuel Benjamin Holmes (Sterling, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a graphics processing unit (GPU). The apparatus may obtain a first indication of a first image including a set of first image sections with a plurality of first subsections and a seco...