US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Enhanced detection or repair of unwanted reflection artifacts in digital images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,343, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced detection or repair of unwanted reflection artifacts in digital images" was invented by Brian P. McCall (San Jose, Calif.), Todd G. Bell (Capitola, Calif.) and Andrew K. McMahon (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed herein to repair or mitigate the appearance of unwanted reflection artifacts in captured video image streams. These unwanted reflection artifacts often present themselves as brightly-colored spots that reflect the shape of a bright light source in the cap...