US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Capturing images using variable aperture devices" (Taiwanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,160, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Capturing images using variable aperture devices" was invented by Po-Chi Ho (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wei-Te Chang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Lei Li (Shenzhen, China), Yawen Chi (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wei-Chih Liu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wen-Chun Feng (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for processing image data. One illustrative method of processing image data includes: capturing a first image of a subject using a variable aperture lens configured with a first aperture and a first ...