US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on Sept. 15 for "Fixed pattern noise suppression in optical mouse by regulating estimator updates" (Malaysian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,060, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Fixed pattern noise suppression in optical mouse by regulating estimator updates" was invented by Kevin Len-Li Lim (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing fixed-pattern noise (FPN) estimation in an optical mouse includes: capturing a series of images to generate a plurality of frames; accumulating motion of the optical mouse to generate an accumulated distance; comparing the accumulated distance to a threshold; when the accumulated distance is greater than the threshold, enabling FPN estimation of the plurality of ...