ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,728, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Hardware efficient interpolation" was invented by Sandeep Dager (Ghaziabad, India) and Saurabh Kumar Shrimal (Noida, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for interpolating a color for an interpolation point. A graphics processor may select a set of known points (known location, known color value) about an interpolation point. The processor may select a reference known point from the set of known points. The processor may determine a relative color ...