US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 16 for "Method and apparatus for automatic exposure" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,593, issued on June 16, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for automatic exposure" was invented by Gunawath Dilshan Godaliyadda (Allen, Texas), Mayank Mangla (Allen, Texas) and Gang Hua (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic exposure (AE) control is provided that includes receiving statistics for AE control for an image from an image signal processor (ISP) coupled to an image sensor generating the image, computing an exposure value at a current time t (EV(t)) using a cost function based on target characteristics of an image, wherein computation of the cost function uses ...