US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "Systems and methods for generating dynamic dark current images" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,955, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for generating dynamic dark current images" was invented by Christian Markus Maekelae (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Bleyer (Seattle) and Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a dark current residual image is configurable to generate a weighted average image by: (i) determining a region-based weight value for each pixel of an input image based upon a light level of a region in which the pixel lies; and (ii) combining the input image with a previous image using th...