ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,332, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method for tuning ISP pipeline and apparatus thereof" was invented by Ding-Yun Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ying-Chun Tseng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yi-Hsuan Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yi-Ping Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tsung-Han Chan (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Tsai Ho (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ISP pipeline includes at least a first image processing module and a second image processing module. The method for tuning intermediate parameters in the ISP pipeline includes extracting a first set of intermediate image quality ...