US Patent Issued to GoPro on Sept. 1 for "Color fringing processing independent of tone mapping" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,730, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Color fringing processing independent of tone mapping" was invented by Guillaume Matthieu Guerin (Chatillon, France) and Julien Caron (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include receiving an image from an image sensor, detecting, in a linear domain, color fringing areas in the image, correcting detected color fringing areas to obtain a corrected image, performing tone mapping to the corrected image to obtain a tone mapped image and storing, displaying, or trans...