ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,839, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Lens shading correction circuit, lens shading correction method, and image processing system" was invented by Changhoon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungwon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuncheol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongseong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens shading correction circuit includes an elliptical gain generation circuit configured to extract a position of a pixel and generate an elliptical gain value using elliptical gain parameters and the extracted position and a multiplier config...