ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,159, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Multi-frame high dynamic range (HDR) image generation using quanta image frames" was invented by Gunawath Dilshan Godaliyadda (Allen, Texas), Abhiram Gnanasambandam (Frisco, Texas), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, Texas), Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas) and Michael O. Polley (Garland, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, using a multi-mode image sensor, first image frames and second image frames. The first image frames include image data having a first bit depth, and the second image frames include image data having a...