US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on July 14 for "Adaptive sharpening for blocks of pixels" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,435, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Adaptive sharpening for 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 apply adaptive sharpening, for a block of input pixels for which processing is performed, to determine a block of output pixels. A block of non-sharp processed pixels is obtained based on the block of input pixels, the block of non-sharp processed pixels being for representing a ...