US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Single pass anti-ringing clamping enabled image processing" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,555, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Single pass anti-ringing clamping enabled image processing" was invented by Liang Li (San Diego) and Andrew Evan Gruber (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for single pass anti-ringing clamping enabled image processing. A graphics processor may perform a filtering operation on a set of texture samples. The graphics processor may select, during a single sampling operation, a minimum value and a maximum value associated with the set of...