ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,104, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and image processing apparatus generating a color ratio of a saturation pixel group" was invented by Dochang Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongwook Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongguk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeshick Wang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeseong Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes: pixel groups; a readout circuit configured to output full pixel values respectively corresponding to the pixel groups and sub pixel values respectively...