US Patent Issued to LAPIS Technology on June 16 for "Image processing device and image capturing device that perform demosaic process" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,618, issued on June 16, was assigned to LAPIS Technology Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Image processing device and image capturing device that perform demosaic process" was invented by Naoki Nishitani (Yokohama, Japan) and Yuki Imatoh (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device derives an edge component value of a pixel of interest by performing an edge detection process using a brightness of the pixel of interest and brightnesses of peripheral pixels of the pixel of interest of image information including the brightness and a color difference of each pixel, derives an average of the color differences of...