US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Low latency distortion unit for head mounted displays" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,816, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Low latency distortion unit for head mounted displays" was invented by Simon Fenney (St. Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing system for a head mounted display (or other non-standard projection display) comprises a low latency distortion unit which is separate from a graphics processing unit in the graphics processing system. The low latency distortion unit receives pixel data generated by the graphics processing system using a standard projection and performs a mapping operation to introduce di...