US Patent Issued to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Image processing system and method for controlling an image sensor to switch between crop mode and binning mode" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,066, issued on July 7, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Image processing system and method for controlling an image sensor to switch between crop mode and binning mode" was invented by Keng-Chih Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes an image sensor, an object detector, an artificial intelligence (AI) inference engine and a mode controller. The image sensor is configured to capture an image. The object detector is configured to determine whether an object exists in the image, and utilize a bounding box to frame the object to obtain a region of interes...