ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,152, issued on June 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for detecting backlight of image" was invented by Dong Hui Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting backlight of image, comprising: a processor configured to convert a pixel value for each of a plurality of image frames based on a first threshold, and block the pixel value into a plurality of block regions to generate a converted frame, generate brightness cumulative data based on the converted frame, determine a block region in which a block value is maximum in the brightness cumulati...