ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,016, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Image processing circuit and method" was invented by Xuan-Yong Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Yu Su (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Feng-Ting Pai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing circuit includes a receiver, at least one memory, a recognition circuit, a calculation circuit and a compensation circuit. The receiver is configured to receive a current image frame and a plurality of previous image frames. The at least one memory is configured to store the plurality of previous image frames. The recognition circuit is c...