ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,221, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for correcting lighting of image" was invented by Junsang Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kinam Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyoung Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyong Euk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented by a processor, of correcting lighting of an image includes inputting an input image to a first neural network and generating predicted lighting data corresponding to lighting of the input image and embedding data corresponding to a feat...