US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 23 for "Image processing device and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,692, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing device and method" was invented by Hidetomo Hirao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method capable of suppressing a drop in encoding efficiency.By reconfiguring a RAW image, the RAW image being an output of a sensor having a pixel array constituted by a plurality of types of pixels each detecting incident light having different optical characteristics including at least a polarization angle characteristic, according to the optical characteristics...