ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,778, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS (XIAMEN) Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).
"Image enhancement method and device for defogging and dark area enhancement using dark and anti-bright channel calculations" was invented by Chuyang Hong (Fujian, China), Cailing Xu (Fujian, China) and Dong He (Fujian, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an image processing method, an image processing device and a computer-readable storage medium. The image processing method includes following steps: acquiring an original image; performing dark channel calculation according to the original image...