US Patent Issued to Google on March 31 for "Automatic white-balance (AWB) for a camera system" (California, Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,140, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatic white-balance (AWB) for a camera system" was invented by Liang Liang (San Diego), Anirban Chatterjee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nisha Masharani (San Francisco), Eric Scott Penner (Redmond, Wash.) and Isaac William Reynolds (Longmont, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses for automatic white-balance for a camera system. The techniques and apparatuses utilize a precursor image to detect one or more detected faces and determine a tone. The camera system retrieves tonal data based on a group of images dete...