ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,420, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for DSP fast boot" was invented by Peter Brook (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Russell Douglas Patton (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Jonathan M Rodriguez II (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, devices, and instructions are described for fast boot of a processor as part of camera operation. In some embodiments, in response to a camera input, a digital signal processor (DSP) of a device is booted using a first set of instructions. Capture of image sensor data is initiated using the first set of instructions at the DSP. The DSP t...