ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,104, issued on April 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Image processing device" was invented by Daiki Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Yahata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a bit length determiner configured to determine a bit length which indicates a number of at least one bit from among all bits of image data, an upper bit extractor configured to extract, from the image data, at least one upper bit corresponding to the bit length, and a noise processing unit configured to perform noise reduction processing for a target pixel using the at least one upper bit of the ...