ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,790, issued on May 6, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Imaging devices with image transform circuitry for improved motion detection" was invented by Alexander Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kuang-Yen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device may include an image sensor that generates frames of image data in response to incident light with an array of image pixels, and processing circuitry that processes the image data. The processing circuitry may include a transformation circuit that applies transforms to subsampled frames of image data that are generated using a sub...