ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,745, issued on June 16, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image processing method for aligning images" was invented by Dongyuan Li (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image alignment method is proposed. The method includes to obtain a first image and a second image of a scene, identify a first overlapping region in the first image and a second overlapping region in the second image, distribute anchor points over the first overlapping region and the second overlapping region at regular intervals, and align the first image and the second image according to the anchor points in the f...