US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 23 for "Image processing device and image processing method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,984, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Woo Young Jeong (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ja Min Koo (Icheon-si, South Korea), Tae Hyun Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jae Hwan Jeon (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Chang Hun Cho (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device including: a decision pixel manager for setting a decision area for a defect candidate pixel, and determining a first decision pixel and a second decision pixel, based on first phase information of pixels included in the decision area...