US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on Sept. 1 for "Imaging device with image encryption" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,732, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Imaging device with image encryption" was invented by Ken Sawada (Tokyo), Daisuke Shiraishi (Tokyo) and Sung Kyu Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device is provided to include a physical unclonable function (PUF) pixel selection unit configured to identify a first pixel that is designated to generate PUF data and select a second pixel having a color identical to a color of the first pixel, a noise extraction unit coupled to the PUF pixel selection unit to receive information of the first pixel and the second pixel and configured to ex...