US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Aug. 11 for "RGB-IR pixel pattern conversion via adaptive filtering" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,689, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"RGB-IR pixel pattern conversion via adaptive filtering" was invented by Hrushikesh Garud (Bangalore, India), Mihir Mody (Bangalore, India), Rajasekhar Allu (Plano, Texas), Jing-Fei Ren (Plano, Texas) and Niraj Nandan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to pixel pattern conversion, and more specifically to using an adaptive filter to convert complex pixel data to non-complex pixel formats. An image processing pipeline is provided herein that comprises an upstream component, a pattern conversion component downs...