ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,141, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"System and method for achieving flicker removal without using flicker-independent frame" was invented by Chia-Yun Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Hu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chieh-Kai Kao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Gang-Wei Fan (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Shao-Hsiang Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A de-flicker system includes a compensation gain estimation circuit and a flicker removal circuit. The compensation gain estimation circuit receives a plurality of flicker-dependent frames with sliding bandings, and estimates a comp...