US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 20 for "Image signal processor and image signal processing method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,962, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image signal processor and image signal processing method" was invented by Cheol Jon Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea), Dong Ik Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Jun Hyeok Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image signal processor includes a first determiner and a pixel interpolator. The first determiner compares a target gradient combination for a target kernel including a target pixel with a reference gradient combination for each of a plurality of corner patterns to calculate a similarity score, and determines at least one corner...