ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,431, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VIVOTEK INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Adaptive frame dropping control method and image processing system" was invented by Kuo-Yeh Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive frame dropping control method is applied to an image processing system. The adaptive frame dropping control method includes utilizing a drop control module of the image processing system to acquire a first image without image processing from a latency buffer, utilizing the first image to compute a first average consuming period of the latency buffer, acquiring a second image without the image processi...