ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,850, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Fujian, China).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Hu He (Shanghai) and Mingyong Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device performs a filtering operation on image data according to a set of filter data, and includes a data reconstruction circuit, a memory and an intelligent processor. The data reconstruction circuit reconstructs data of blocks in the image data to generate first reconstruction data, and reconstructs the set of filter data to generate second reconstruction data. The memory stores the firs...