ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,210, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reducing AR power consumption via bounding sparse content" was invented by Cullum James Baldwin (San Diego), Walker Curtis (San Diego) and Mahdi Shaghaghi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for reducing AR power consumption via bounding sparse content. A processor obtains, for a frame of graphics content, a first indication of at least one of: the frame, a graphics processor tracked active pixel region associated with the frame, tile trackin...