US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 28 for "Image processing device and face detection method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,328, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing device and face detection method" was invented by Ji Hee Han (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jong Heon Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Hun Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyun Im (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Ju Hyun Cho (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device is provided, which has an improved face detection method. The image processing device may include a background manager, which determines a foreground region having a target object and a background region which excludes the target object based on i...