ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,752, issued on April 14, was assigned to GENESYS LOGIC INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Image processing method and image processing apparatus" was invented by Jin-Min Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Wei-Zheng Pan (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chuan-Yue Yang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided. In the method, first encoding is performed on an input image, to output a first noisy image. De-noising is performed on the first noisy image, to output a first de-noised image. De-noising is performed on the input image according to the first de-nois...