ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,542, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing system and image processing method" was invented by Min Gi Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hyun Gu Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device that reduces grid pattern noise in a captured image and which improves captured image quality may include an image input circuit configured to receive pixel values from an image sensor, a kernel manager configured to generate kernels corresponding to a grid pattern determined based on an NxN array pattern of a color filter array included in the image sen...