US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Methods and apparatus to detect a region of interest based on variable rate shading" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,741, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to detect a region of interest based on variable rate shading" was invented by Chengwei Wang (Shanghai), Zhizhen Tang (Shanghai), Tiance Wu (Shanghai), Anxiao Lu (Shanghai) and Yanjie Gu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify regions of interest of an image based on a variable rate shading (VRS) mask created from a video image. A method to detect the regions can include detecting, with one or more processors, regions of interest of the video image based on the VRS mas...