US Patent Issued to RINGO AI on July 28 for "White balance with reference illuminants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,999, issued on July 28, was assigned to RINGO AI INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"White balance with reference illuminants" was invented by Jay Hurley (Aptos, Calif.), Matthew D. Weaver (Aptos, Calif.) and Jeffrey Saake (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for achieving high-fidelity color reproduction in the absence of any known reflectance spectrums. That is, high-fidelity color reproduction can be achieved without portable references, such as gray cards and color checkers. To accomplish this, a new reference spectrum-the "reference illuminant ...