ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,188, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to WELTREND SEMICONDUCTOR INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image dewarping device and method" was invented by Hsuan-Ying Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Chih Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta Hsien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Te-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Che Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image dewarping includes capturing a source image from a camera, selecting an input row of pixels from the source image, if the input row of pixels comprises a plurality of input pixels in a region of interest in the source image, storing the plurality of input pixels to a memory to generate an input segmen...