ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,722, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image processing method and image processing device" was invented by Cheng-Yu Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hao-Tien Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yuan-Chen Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ying-Wei Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tai-Hsiang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ying-Jui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Cheng Ju (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method is provided. The method includes the step of comparing each of the input pixels in an input image to a corresponding buffered pixel in a buffered image, and computing the difference value between the in...