ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,823, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Auto exposure for spherical images" was invented by Guillaume Matthieu Guerin (Chatillon, France), Sylvain Leroy (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), Yoel Taieb (Paris) and Giuseppe Moschetti (Saint Cloud, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Auto exposure processing for spherical images improves image quality by reducing visible exposure level variation along a stitch line within a spherical image. An average global luminance value is determined based on luminance values determined for first and second images, which are based on auto exposure configurations of first an...