ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,508, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Demosaicing method and demosaicing device" was invented by Pilsu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungwon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongseong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byeongdae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A demosaicing method for an input mosaic image includes: obtaining an input image, for each sub target pixel, estimating a main edge direction based on main color pixel values; determining the main edge direction by performing edge enhancement based on the input mosaic image; generating a main color d...