ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,851, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus with image preprocessing" was invented by Jaeyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyuhong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sungun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaejoon Han (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method with image preprocessing includes: transforming a fingerprint image into a frequency domain; suppressing a low-frequency region corresponding to a first noise component of the fingerprint image in the frequency domain; and restoring the frequency domain, in which the low-frequenc...