US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 1 for "Leveraging high dynamic range (HDR) maps for improved auto focus" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,700, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Leveraging high dynamic range (HDR) maps for improved auto focus" was invented by Shridhar Prakash Patil (Chikkodi, India), Abhijeet Dey (Bengaluru, India) and Shrey Shailesh Gadiya (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for focusing. For instance, a process can include obtaining a plurality of images captured based on a plurality of different exposures; obtaining a high dynamic range (HDR) map generated based on the plurality of images, wherein the HDR map indicates weights that are applicable to the plurality of...