US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Multi-context dynamic line buffer management for image processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,605, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-context dynamic line buffer management for image processing" was invented by Vinod Kumar Nahval (Mountain House, Calif.), Mei Yang (San Diego), Srivaishnavi Sree Krishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rohan Desai (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an image signal processor (ISP). The ISP is a discrete hardware unit and includes a line buffer, a memory controller, and one or more image processors. The memory controller is configured to allocate blocks within the line buffer to a plurality of contexts, and for each of the contexts: receive one...