US Patent Issued to NOVATEK Microelectronics on Dec. 16 for "Image processor and operation method for optimizing on screen display resolution" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,651, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image processor and operation method for optimizing on screen display resolution" was invented by Chih-Hsuan Huang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Hung-Ming Wang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method performed by an image processor is provided, including the following operations of receiving a mixed image including an input image and a first on-screen-display (OSD) pattern and generating a second OSD pattern, different from the first OSD pattern, based on the mixed image. The second OSD pattern encompasses protection regions o...