US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Nov. 4 for "Image processing device and method of generating physical intrinsic identification key" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,429, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing device and method of generating physical intrinsic identification key" was invented by Ken Sawada (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device may include: a noise information manager for managing noise information of a target image sensor and a reference image sensor. It may also include a physical intrinsic identification key generator, which generates a physical intrinsic identification key of the target image sensor, based on a difference between noise signals output from pixels of the target image ...