US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 1 for "HDR fusion for variable aperture devices to maintain spotlight visual artifacts" (Taiwanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,715, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"HDR fusion for variable aperture devices to maintain spotlight visual artifacts" was invented by Wei-Te Chang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yi-Han Liao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Lijun Zhang (Shanghai), 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: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image signal processing that support blending images. In a first aspect, a computing device may receive a first image frame and a second image frame. The second image frame may be captured with a smaller aperture ...