ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,093, issued on April 7, was assigned to National Chengchi University (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Underwater image enhancement method and image processing system using the same" was invented by Yan-Tsung Peng (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yen-Rong Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underwater image enhancement method and image processing system using the same are provided. The method includes the following steps. An original underwater image is received. An original histogram of the original underwater image is generated. The original histogram is input into a deep learning model to generate an optimized histogram. An...