ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,282, issued on June 2, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).
"Color adjustments of highlighted areas" was invented by Carles Carmona Calpe (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Jordina Torrents Barrena (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Marcos Casaldaliga Albisu (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system detects a highlighted area in an image content. The system applies a color adjustment process in the highlighted area. The color adjustment process is not applied in areas of the image content outside the highlighted area, and the color adjustment process include...