ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,620, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Multi-frame likelihood-based adaptive bad pixel correction in image processing applications or other applications" was invented by Madhuri Suthar (Frisco, Texas), Nguyen Thang Long Le (Garland, Texas), Tyler Luu (Richardson, Texas) and Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining multiple input image frames and generating bad pixel maps associated with different ones of the input image frames. Each bad pixel map is generated using first and second adaptive thresholds that are based on statistical ...