ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,001, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Region-of-interest-based image signal processing" was invented by Imran Nazir Junejo (Markham, Canada), Ankush Gupta (Markham, Canada) and Tejas Velukutty Nair (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital cameras include an image sensor and an image signal processor. The image signal processor processes raw image data received with the image sensor, accounting for a variety of effects such lens characteristics, Bayer filter color bias, white balance, color intensity effects, or gamma effects. While it is possible to perform this process at the...