ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,290, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Device and method for acquiring images" was invented by Woo-Shik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangyoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition device, including: a multispectral image sensor configured to acquire a first image using four or more channels; a red-green-blue (RGB) image sensor configured to acquire a second image using a red (R) channel, a green (G) channel, and a blue (B) channel; and a processor configured to perform calibration on the acquired first image, based on a guided image ge...