ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,378, issued on April 7, was assigned to HANWHA VISION Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Image obtaining method, apparatus, and computer program" was invented by Dae Bong Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Kyung Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dong Jin Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Young Sang Kwon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image obtaining method employed by an image obtaining apparatus including a filter for reducing light of a first wavelength for focus control according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes selecting a filter corresponding to a brightness of a photographing ...