ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,457, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Image capturing device and image calculation method" was invented by Chun-Hao Liao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsiu-Ting Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device with a sensor, a memory, and a processor is provided. The sensor captures an image of at least one target. The memory stores a plurality of instructions. The processor obtains the plurality of instructions to perform the following steps: controlling the sensor to capture a reference image and a processed image; capturing a first bright region and a dark region from ...