US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 27 for "Parallel tone mapping in high-resolution imaging systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,018, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Parallel tone mapping in high-resolution imaging systems" was invented by Abhiram Gnanasambandam (Frisco, Texas), John W. Glotzbach (Allen, Texas), Zeeshan Nadir (Allen, Texas), Gunawath Dilshan Godaliyadda (Allen, Texas), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, Texas) and Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining multiple image frames captured using at least one imaging sensor. The method also includes generating a local tone map, a global tone map look-up table (LUT), and one or more contrast enhancement LU...