ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,734, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing device for drone, drone image processing method, and drone image processing processor" was invented by Inmo Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suckhyun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunkook Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device for drone includes a memory that receives and stores image data and a processor that performs pre-processing on the image data by separating the image data into thermal image data and real image data and performs image processing by generating pixel com...