US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on April 14 for "Signal processing device and method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,105, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Signal processing device and method, and program" was invented by Atsushi Totsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a signal processing device and method, and program capable of performing appropriate white balance adjustment without blocked-up shadows occurring.A signal processing device includes: a detection unit that detects, based on a first polarization image of a plurality of polarization images with mutually different polarization directions, a specular reflection region in the polarization ima...