US Patent Issued to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for fusing color image and near-infrared image" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,270, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for fusing color image and near-infrared image" was invented by Kim C. Ng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jinglin Shen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chiuman Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for image fusion includes the following. One or more geometric characteristics of the NIR image and the RGB image are normalized. The normalized NIR image and the normalized RGB image are converted to a first NIR image and a first RGB image in a radiance domain, respectively. The first NIR image is decomposed to an NIR base portio...