US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 20 for "Image acquisition apparatus and method employing lens array" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,951, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image acquisition apparatus and method employing lens array" was invented by Soongeun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Woo-Shik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition apparatus includes an image sensor including a microlens and a plurality of pixels arranged adjacent to each other and sharing the microlens; and a processor configured to process an input image acquired by the image sensor, wherein the processor may be further configured to: generate a plurality of parallax images by extracting and comb...