ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,705, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Masao Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Sinsuke Hishinuma (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of reducing the capacity of a memory. Provided is an image processing apparatus including a memory that stores image data, and a control unit that controls write processing of writing the image data in the memory and read processing of reading the image data stored in th...