US Patent Issued to SOCIONEXT on July 1 for "Image processing device and image processing method for obtaining two sub-images from original image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,912, issued on July 1, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method for obtaining two sub-images from original image" was invented by Yuji Umezu (Yokohama, Japan) and Soichi Hagiwara (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a memory and a processor configured to separate first image data obtained by an image sensor having a Bayer arrangement, into second image data that includes brightness information, and third image data that includes color information and has a lower resolution than the first image data and the second image data, wh...