ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,445, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Image combinations for high dynamic range processing" was invented by Stephane Valente (Paris), Miguel Marques (Bois d'Arcy, France) and Romain Gounelle (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple images that include a first image, a second image, and a third image are received. The multiple images are such that the second image is temporally between the first image and the third image. The first image, the second image, and the third image are combined to obtain a long-exposure image. High dynamic range processing is applied to the second image and the long-ex...