ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,924, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient demosaicing on neural processing units" was invented by Shubham Deepak Patel (Gondia, India), Pawan Aasudaram Budhwani (Amravati, India) and Lakshmi Kantha Reddy Ponnatota (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for image demosaicing. For instance a process can include performing a depth-wise convolution operation on image data and a depth-wise convolutional filter with pre-determined parameter values to obtain a plurality of color channels for the image data; performing a convolution operation on the plurality of ...