ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,838, issued on July 21, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method of correcting image data of an image sensor" was invented by Yang Song (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaodong Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Chengming Liu (Fremont, Calif.) and Rui Ke (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of correcting image data of an image sensor provided herein includes collecting a process window from the image sensor; obtaining weight factors of the process window in various directions based on readout values of the second photodiodes in the process window; obtaining interpolated values of the second photodio...