ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,984, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Local tone mapping" was invented by Guillaume Matthieu Guerin (Renens, Switzerland), Antoine Regimbeau (Aigremont, France), Thomas Nicolas Emmanuel Veit (Meudon, France), Bruno Cesar Douady-Pleven (Orsay, France) and Violaine Marie Mong-lan Sudret (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include receiving an image from an image sensor; applying a filter to the image to obtain a low-frequency component image and a high-frequency component image; determining a first enhanced image b...