ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,194, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Methods and systems for accelerating pixel processing" was invented by Prakash Balasubramanian (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system, includes an image sensor, a bus structure coupled to the image sensor, and a system memory coupled to the image sensor via the bus structure. A direct memory access (DMA) controller is coupled to the bus structure. The DMA controller includes in-line logic hardware configured to retrieve raw pixel data from the image sensor, and internally process the retrieved raw pixel data th...