ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,859, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for object-based dynamic tone adjustment" was invented by Mark Gintsburg (Haifa, Israel) and Eran Pinhasov (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging systems and techniques are described. In some examples, an imaging system receives an image captured by an image sensor. The imaging system determines that an image region in the image includes a representation of an object of a specified category. The imaging system adjusts a hue (and/or saturation and/or brightness) of at least one pixel of the representation of the object in th...