US Patent Issued to Novatek Microelectronics on Nov. 3 for "Image processing IC and image processing method for economical picture quality processing based on symmetrical scaling" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,131, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image processing IC and image processing method for economical picture quality processing based on symmetrical scaling" was invented by Chi-Ying Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Hung-Ming Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image processing IC includes a down-scaler circuit, a picture quality processing circuit, and an up-scaler circuit. The down-scaler circuit converts a first image frame with a first resolution into a second image frame with a second resolution smaller than the first resolution by using a down-scaling op...