US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Efficient bi-directional image scaling" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,150, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient bi-directional image scaling" was invented by Sriram Emarose (Chennai, India) and Raja Shekhar Reddy Annam (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method for scaling an image includes receiving a digital image including at least a portion to be scaled. A set of pixels of the portion to be scaled in a horizontal direction is sampled. The sampled set of pixels is bi-directionally scaled by applying a horizontal scaling parameter to the sampled set of pixels to compute a horizontally scaled value. The horizontally scaled valu...