ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,177, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Flare compensation" was invented by Marc Lebrun (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) and Eric Chasseur (Le Pecq, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flare value is estimated for a color channel using downscaled images of images obtained via dual fisheye lenses. The flare value is adjusted based on at least one of luminance exposure compensation (LEC) or automatic color lens shading (ACLS) data to obtain an adjusted flare value. Flare in the color channel of at least one of the images is corrected by combining the adjusted flare value with pixel values of the at least...