ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,157, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Tone consistency for camera imaging" was invented by Soumendu Majee (McKinney, Texas), Pavan C. Madhusudanarao (The Colony, Texas), Zeeshan Nadir (Allen, Texas), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, Texas) and Hamid Rahim Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a single frame image from a multi-frame processing pipeline and obtaining a hardware image signal processing (HWISP) reference image. The method also includes obtaining luma components of the HWISP reference image and luma components of the single frame im...