ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,713, issued on June 30, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Apparatus and method for frame cropping and shifting" was invented by Kevin Ross Tomei (Dallas), Jeffrey Matthew Kempf (Dallas) and Jeffrey Scott Farris (Flower Mound, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a frame converter, a frame of pixel data and converting, by the frame converter, the frame to a first frame division unit. The method also includes receiving, by a translation circuit, a pixel coordinate and cropping and shifting, by the translation circuit, the first frame division unit based on the pixel coordinate, to produce...