US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Image effect rendering" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,619, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Image effect rendering" was invented by Eran Scharam (Misgav, Israel), Tomer Livneh (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel), Esther Toledano (Kiryat yam, Israel), Diana Shaposhnik (Haifa, Israel), Oren Shirak (Atlit, Israel) and Yan Gershfeld (Acco, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image signal processing that support hardware-based photographic and videographic effects. In a first aspect, a method of image processing includes receiving, by an image signal processor, first image data; and determining an output im...