US Patent Issued to Digimarc on Jan. 13 for "Methods and arrangements for assessing camera system performance" (Oregon, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,910, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Methods and arrangements for assessing camera system performance" was invented by James Nicholas Giampietro (West Linn, Ore.) and Jerry Allen McMahan Jr. (Oakwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performance metrics for an imaging system are assessed in the field, without the need for carefully-controlled conditions, such as lighting. In some embodiments, a hand-held test target is used to measure MTF, and to identify any undesired noise-reduction operation applied by an image signal processor. A metric-based heuristic enables prediction of whether an imag...