ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,826, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to improve image quality and automate panorama shots" was invented by Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate to improving image quality of panoramic images. A system generates for display on a device, a user interface for capturing a panoramic image, receives image data from a camera of the device from a plurality of view angles, and generates for display on a device a preliminary panoram...