US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Circuit for performing optical image stabilization before lens shading correction" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,986, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Circuit for performing optical image stabilization before lens shading correction" was invented by Chihsin Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing circuit for performing optical image stabilization before lens shading correction. The image processing circuit determines, for each row of pixels in an image captured through an image sensor receiving light through a lens having an optical center with a first offset along a first direction and a second offset along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a first grid offse...