ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,067, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing" was invented by Albert Saa-Garriga (Staines, Great Britain), Daniel Valdez-Balderas (Staines, Great Britain) and Prashant Sharma (Staines, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for processing an image is described. For example, the method comprises detecting a plurality of objects within an in input image; identifying dimensions of a display on which the input image is to be displayed; cropping the input image to obtain a cropped image which matches the identified dimensions, wherein the croppe...