US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on April 14 for "Device and method for exposure correction using a low-resolution brightness map" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,098, issued on April 14, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Device and method for exposure correction using a low-resolution brightness map" was invented by Mikko Ollila (Tampere, Finland) and Ville Timonen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is method for exposure correction. The method includes receiving at least one image; defining a low-resolution brightness map, associated with the at least one image, corresponding to an ambient lighting condition in which the at least one image is captured; and correcting an exposure in the at least one image, to restore at least one inaccurately-illuminated area...