ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,132, issued on March 3, was assigned to LUNIT INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand).
"Auto gamma correction" was invented by Seymour Francis Knowles-Barley (Wellington, New Zealand) and Ralph Highnam (Wellington, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to automatic calibration of gamma value. In particular, it relates to automatically setting gamma value for the pre-processing of medical images, whereby the input image is standardised for the purpose of training machine learning models. The method is useful for useful for processing purposes to ensure that features may be identified reliably an...