ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,632, issued on June 3, was assigned to Magnachip Mixed-Signal Ltd. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Image processing apparatus including line buffer and operation method thereof" was invented by Sangsu Park (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes: a line buffer configured to store image data; a clock gating circuit configured to apply a clock signal to the line buffer; and a data processor configured to determine, when performing a write operation, whether to skip the write operation to the line buffer for each of adjacent data according to whether a value of each of the adjacent dat...