ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,744, issued on May 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for converting a light source sensing image of a subject into an image layer to generate image data and a method of operating the electronic device" was invented by Jin Su Kim (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device, and a method of operating the same, includes an image sensor and an image processor. The image sensor is configured to sense light sourced from a subject and generate an image layer. The image processor is configured to generate a feature map by performing a convolution oper...