ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,896, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Image processing for exposure bracketing" was invented by Meng-Lin Wu (San Diego), Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana (San Diego), Sandesh Ghimire (San Diego), Kai Liu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ching-Fu Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image signal processing that support high dynamic range (HDR) image processing on image frames with temporally-aligned centers to reduce artifacts resulting from fusing image frames with different temporal centers. In some aspects, a method of image processing includes captu...