ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,584, issued on July 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing device and image processing method for performing parallel interpolation on grouped sub-regions" was invented by Yon Woo Seong (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ji Hyun Son (Icheon-si, South Korea), Hyun Gu Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Dae Hyun Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a segment component configured to divide an image into sub-regions based on pixel values of the image received from outside of the image processing device. The image processing device also includes a sub-re...