US Patent Issued to SK hynix on March 31 for "Image signal processor and method for processing image signal" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,139, issued on March 31, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image signal processor and method for processing image signal" was invented by Cheol Jon Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image signal processor, and a method for processing an image signal, include a directionality strength determiner, a half-directional pattern determiner, and a pixel interpolator. The directionality strength determiner divides a target kernel including a target pixel into a plurality of sub-kernels, and generates gradient sum information by calculating directionality strength of each of the plurality of...