ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,330, issued on July 15, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Image processing method and image processing device for enhancing image processing efficiency" was invented by Yi-Chen Tseng (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Po-Hsien Wu (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes an image encoder, a memory and an image decoder. The image encoder receives an input image frame, retrieves luminance information and chrominance information from the input image frame, respectively, encodes the luminance information to generate an encoded luminance frame, and encodes the chrominance informat...