ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,540, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging sensor, an image processing device and an image processing method" was invented by Piergiorgio Sartor (Stuttgart, Germany), Alexander Gatto (Stuttgart, Germany), Vincent Parret (Stuttgart, Germany) and Adriano Simonetto (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device has circuitry, which is configured to obtain global image data including image data and spectral data, the global image data representing a global image area and to input the global image data to machine learning model for generating output spectral data, wherein the ...