US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 4 for "Sparse color image sensor system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,259, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sparse color image sensor system" was invented by Stuart James Myron Nicholson (Waterloo, Canada), Steven Benjamin Goldberg (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Timothy Paul Bodiya (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for generating a color image by computationally combining chromatically undersampled and shifted information present in multiple component image frames captured via a sparse color filter array that includes a minority of wavelength-filtered picture elements and a remaining majority of panchromatic picture elements...