ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,674, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image processing method generating high quality image and image processing apparatus performing the same" was invented by Seunghoon Jee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Moongi Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Haegeun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes receiving an image, calculating a luminance component of the received image, estimating an illuminance component of the image by using the luminance component, calc...