ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,113, issued on April 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automatically segmenting and adjusting images" was invented by Orly Liba (Palo Alto, Calif.), Florian Kainz (San Rafael, Calif.), Longqi Cai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yael Pritch Knaan (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device automatically segments an image into different regions and automatically adjusts perceived exposure-levels or other characteristics associated with each of the different regions, to produce pictures that exceed expectations for the type of optics and camera equipment being used and in some cases, the pictures eve...