US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Demosaicing circuit for demosaicing quad bayer raw image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,241, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Demosaicing circuit for demosaicing quad bayer raw image data" was invented by Sarvesh Swami (San Jose, Calif.), David R. Pope (Campbell, Calif.), Sheng Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Amnon D. Silverstein (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a multi-mode demosaicing circuit able to receive and demosaic image data in a different raw image formats, such as Bayer raw image format and Quad Bayer raw image format. The multi-mode demosaicing circuit demosaics Quad Bayer image data by interpolating a green channel of the image data along...