US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 30 for "Image signal processing system and method including phase difference detection pixels" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,425, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image signal processing system and method including phase difference detection pixels" 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 processing system capable of performing image processing and an image signal processing method for the same are disclosed. The image signal processor includes an image binning "circuit" generates a down-scaled second image from a first image by summing pixel values of at least one pair of phase difference detection pixels and pixel values of color pixels in the first i...