ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,246, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LOGIC AND DESIGN Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Image processing method" was invented by Masahiro Kobayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method is disclosed. The image processing method includes setting n reference pixels around a pixel of interest, where n is an integer, sequentially comparing a pixel value of the pixel of interest with a pixel value of each reference pixel, counting a number of the reference pixels whose pixel values are less than or equal to the pixel value of the pixel of interest, incrementing a histogram value of each reference pixel by 1 to compare with a...