US Patent Issued to Climax Technology on Aug. 5 for "Method and system of adaptably detecting dirt, occlusion and smudge on camera lens and image sensor" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,548, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Climax Technology Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and system of adaptably detecting dirt, occlusion and smudge on camera lens and image sensor" was invented by Yi-Kai Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Chi Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Wen-Yi Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adaptably detecting dirt, occlusion and smudge on camera lens and image sensor includes capturing an image; subjecting original pixels of the image to sampling to result in sampled pixels; excluding outliers of the sampled pixels to result in retained pixels; obtaining an average value of the retain...