ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,660, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing method and apparatus using convolutional neural network" was invented by Daehyun Ban (Suwon-si, South Korea), Daehun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongsung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Juyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an input/output interface configured to receive an image and output a result, a memory storing one or more instructions for processing the image by using a convolutional neural network, and ...