US Patent Issued to Google on March 17 for "Hybrid white-balance mode in a camera system of an electronic device" (California, Utah, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,205, issued on March 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hybrid white-balance mode in a camera system of an electronic device" was invented by Liang Liang (San Diego), Michelle Y. Chen (Somerville, Mass.), Isaac William Reynolds (Longmont, Utah) and Shih-Ming Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes methods and systems for a hybrid white balance, HWB, mode (114), which is a hybrid of automatic and manual WB modes, in a camera system (104) of an electronic device (102). The HWB mode may provide options for a user to select a WB setting, via a camera user interface (118) in a l...