ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,978, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image light supplementation method and electronic device" was invented by Chungyuen Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device first obtains a to-be-processed image, where a side of a face of a first user in the to-be-processed image lacks illumination, causing the side to be darker. Then, a first image is obtained from the to-be-processed image. Then, an albedo image and an illumination image of the first image are calculated, and light supplementation is performed on the first image by using the albedo image and the illumina...