US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 23 for "Image processor, image processing system including image processor, system-on-chip including image processing system, and method of operating image processing system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 24 -- United States Patent no. 10,694,201, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image processor, image processing system including image processor, system-on-chip including image processing system, and method of operating image processing system" was invented by Kyung-ah Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Sun-young Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jin-hong Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing image data comprises processing a frame of image data comprising a plurality of pixels, each having corresponding pixel values. Each of the pixel values include a first and second set of bits that may be separately or simultaneously accessed and/or processed. The first set of bits may correspond to the more significant bits of each pixel and the second set of bits may correspond to the less significant bits. In some examples the number of bits in each of the first and second set of bits may correspond to the width of a used data bus and/or features of a peripheral device connected to the image processor, such as a display."

The patent was filed on June 15, 2018, under Application No. 16/009,710.

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