ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,717, issued on June 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lens shading using non-radial image correction" was invented by Yongshen Ni (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric Dujardin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, lens shading image correction systems and applications using non-radial correction of residual radial shading error are provided. In some embodiments, lens shading image correction may be implemented using calibration parameters corresponding to radial lens shading correction, and calibration parameters corresponding to non-radial lens shading correction. In some embodiments, sens...