ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,231, issued on July 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to warp images with decimation and interpolation" was invented by Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas), Matthew C. Stroud (Allen, Texas) and John Fenske (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to warp images for video processing. An example device includes horizontal warper circuitry configured to access an input image, decimate a first set of pixels in the input image by row, and interpolate a second set of pixels in the input image by row to produce a horizontally warped im...