US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 8 for "Computational photography under low-light conditions" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,705, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Computational photography under low-light conditions" was invented by Jinglun Gao (San Mateo, Calif.), Ruben Manuel Velarde (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Szepo Robert Hung (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses for computational photography under low-light conditions for an image-capture device on a mobile computing device. In aspects, described are techniques and apparatuses for an image-capture device to utilize sensor data in determining whether to enable flash photography or capture multiple images of...