US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 20 for "Automatic white balancing (AWB) in variable aperture (VA) camera systems" (Taiwanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,083, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Automatic white balancing (AWB) in variable aperture (VA) camera systems" was invented by Yi-Chun Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Tai-Hsiang Jen (Taipei, Taiwan), Zhi Qin (Shenzhen, China), Tsung-yen Chen (Taichung, Taiwan) and Wei-Chih Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image processing that support enhanced white balancing operations. In a first aspect, a method of image processing includes receiving first image data obtained at a first aperture; determining a first output image frame based on the fir...