US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 23 for "Image signal processor and processing method capable of determining directionality strength information" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,978, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image signal processor and processing method capable of determining directionality strength information" was invented by Cheol Jon Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image signal processor capable of performing image processing and a method for processing an image signal are disclosed. The image signal processor includes an image binning circuit configured to generate a second image by summing pixel values of color pixels in a first image including a pixel value of at least one phase detection pixel and the pixel values of the...