ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,053, issued on March 11, was assigned to Socionext Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Soichi Hagiwara (Yokohama, Japan), Yuji Umezu (Yokohama, Japan) and Junzo Sakurai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device for performing correction processing on original image data generated by an image-capturing element configured to receive light with a plurality of pixels through a color filter including segments of a red color and at least one complementary color includes a processing circuitry being configured to perform operations including converti...