ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,224, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Frequency based color moire pattern detection" was invented by Yotam Roet (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Tal Bernstein (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Oren Girshkin (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting color moire in an image, including: obtaining image data corresponding to an input image, wherein the image data comprises chrominance channel data and luminance channel data; applying a frequency transform to the image data to obtain transformed image data; based on the transformed image data, selecting at least one lowest fre...