US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 14 for "Image processing device and image processing method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,565, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Jun Hyeok Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device may include: a target pixel set determiner for determining a target pixel set, among a plurality of Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) pixel sets, based on average values and variance values of pixel values output from a plurality of pixels corresponding to a kernel set based on each of the plurality of PDAF pixel sets, wherein the average values and the variance values respectively correspon...