US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 28 for "Range aware spatial upscaling" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,468, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Range aware spatial upscaling" was invented by Siqi Li (Shenzhen, China), Yunzhen Li (Shenzhen, China), Qi Jin (Shanghai) and Yanshan Wen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided for preserving the edge sharpness and enhancing details while upscaling a rendered image. Some aspects specifically relate to upscaling images using a spatial difference between a pixel to be interpolated and respective neighboring pixels, and an intensity difference between respective neighboring pixels and a mean intensity of a subset of the neighboring pixels. Conside...