US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 16 for "Image processing apparatus and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,675, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image processing apparatus and method of operating the same" was invented by Sol Namkung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungwon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongseong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a luminance calculator configured to convert input image data into luminance image data including luminance values of a plurality of pixels, a noise calculator configured to generate sum values obtained by adding noise values corresponding to neighboring pixels around a target p...