US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on April 7 for "Image dithering apparatus and method having a random dithering mechanism" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,090, issued on April 7, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image dithering apparatus and method having a random dithering mechanism" was invented by Li-Yong Wu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image dithering method having a random dithering mechanism is disclosed. Each of pixel blocks of an input image is set to be an under-calculation block to perform steps outlined below. (A) A selected parameter look-up table is retrieved from parameter look-up tables. (B) A space reference parameter is generated according to a space parameter of the under-calculation block and/or a time reference para...