US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Upsampling blocks of pixels" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,710, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Upsampling blocks of pixels" was invented by James Imber (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Joseph Heyward (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Kristof Beets (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and processing modules upsample a block of input pixels to determine a block of upsampled pixels. At least one of the upsampled pixels is a diagonal pixel, wherein a diagonal pixel is at a position that is not in any of the rows nor in any of the columns of input pixels in the block of input pixels. Indications of ...