US Patent Issued to PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY on Nov. 4 for "Image processing device and method suppressing image sharpness decrease while reducing a tone jump" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,349, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image processing device and method suppressing image sharpness decrease while reducing a tone jump" was invented by Teruto Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes: the determination unit that determines whether or not, among a plurality of pixels arranged linearly including a pixel of interest, a first adjacent pixel, and a second adjacent pixel, there is a pixel having a pixel value whose difference from a pixel value of the pixel of interest is greater than or equal to a reference value; a tone ...