ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,334, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Morpho Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and image processing method" was invented by Soma Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Michihiro Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes: an image sensor generating raw image data; a pipeline processing unit executing, on the raw image data, an image processing group such that image data which is a result of image processing in a preceding stage becomes a target of image processing in a subsequent stage; an extended image processing unit executing extended image processing differ...