ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,858, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing device and image processing method thereof" was invented by Seungwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Deoksoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byoung-Ju Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device is provided. The device includes: a processor configured to: perform first tone mapping on an input image frame using a brightness enhancement tone curve corresponding to a current ambient illuminance value to obtain a first result; obtain histogram tone c...