US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Dec. 30 for "Image processing device, imaging device, and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,417, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, imaging device, and image processing method" was invented by Ting Zhang (Tokyo) and Masafumi Wakazono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device that uses YC-raw data as a development processing target includes an image processing unit that performs conversion processing, into an image sensor output format, on YC-raw data that is image data obtained by performing pre-white balance processing, demosaicing, and a YC conversion processing on image data in the image sensor output format, and further performs reverse pre-white...