ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,105, issued on April 7, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Semantic-aware auto white balance" was invented by Xin Lu (Saratoga, Calif.), Simon Su Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Jingyuan Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), He Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brian Price (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Calista Chandler (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system auto white balances an image using an object in the image and a reference color distribution. Given an input image, a target object in the input image is identified. A reference color distribution for the object type of the target object from the input imag...