ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,306, issued on June 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Vision processing accelerator with low latency image distortion processing pipelines" was invented by Niraj Nandan (Plano, Texas), Rajasekhar Reddy Allu (Plano, Texas) and Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens distortion correction function operates by backmapping output images to the uncorrected, distorted input images. As a vision image processor completes processing on the image data lines needed for the lens distortion correction function to operate on a group of output, undistorted image lines, the lens distortion correc...