ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,405, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image processing device including neural network processor for processing patch images and image processing method" was invented by Seungwon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Hongjae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Junsang Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device is trained to cluster a plurality of patch images into a plurality of clusters, select a first patch image from each of the plurality of clusters as a reference patch image and s...