ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,737, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dual-mode image fusion architecture" was invented by Maxim Smirnov (Portland, Ore.) and David R. Pope (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an image processing circuit able to perform image fusion on received images in at least a first mode for fusing demosaiced and downscaled image data, and a second mode for fusing raw image data. Raw image data is received from an image sensor in Bayer RGB format. In the first mode, the raw image data is demosaiced and resampled prior to undergoing image fusion. On the other hand, in the secon...