ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,506, issued on June 17, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and associated signal processing method" was invented by Wun-Lin Chang (HsinChu, Taiwan), Pui-Kei Leong (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Ching-Sheng Cheng (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a decoder circuit, an image processing circuit, a detection circuit, a transmission interval determination circuit, an auxiliary data extraction circuit, and an encoder circuit. The decoder circuit decodes an input signal to generate the decoded signal. The image processing circuit performs image processing on t...