US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 17 for "Locally-adaptive multi-scale image enhancement" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,209, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Locally-adaptive multi-scale image enhancement" was invented by Zeeshan Nadir (Allen, Texas), Hamid Rahim Sheikh (Allen, Texas) and John William Glotzbach (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes downsampling an input frame and performing global contrast enhancement of the input frame based on the downsampled input frame to generate a globally contrast-enhanced frame. The method also includes generating texture maps at different scale resolutions based on the downsampled input frame. The method further includes generat...